Soul searching Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation / [electronic resource] :
Christopher Sieving.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
- x, 265 p. : ill.
- Wesleyan film .
Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- March on Hollywood: gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: the cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- Concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- Battle of Cleveland: uptight and the urban Black revolution film -- Black Hollywood meets new Hollywood: the landlord and the racial impasse film of 1970 -- Conclusion: 1960s African American cinema and the birth of blaxploitation.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans in motion pictures. African Americans in the motion picture industry. Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.