Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now (Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series) - Hardcover

Reid, Mark A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742526410 ISBN 13: 9780742526419

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

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This book will make a solid addition to the growing library of recent black film studies. . . . Highly recommended for all film collections. * Library Journal * Reid makes another substantial contribution to literature on African American film history and theory with this book. . . . The volume's six freestanding essays examine early African American film, black family film, black action film, black horror film, black female-centered film, and black independent film. Essential. * CHOICE * In Black Lenses, Black Voices Mark Reid has given us an always interesting summation of his evolving, highly original analysis of black film as a cinema 'committed to the survival and wholeness of an entire people.' -- Thomas R. Cripps, Morgan State University Mark Reid brings to our attention a complex and rich group of contemporary films, deftly setting them within their history in African American and Hollywood filmmaking. Always enlightening, never simple, Reid's work is significant for film criticism and for race and gender media analysis. -- Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin

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Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written-and sometimes produced-by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors and or screenwriters are not black. Taking us through the development of African American independent filmmaking before and after World War II, Mark A. Reid then illustrates the unique nature of African American family, action, horror, female-centered, and independent films, such as Eve's Bayou, Jungle Fever, Shaft, Souls of Sin, Bones, Waiting to Exhale, Monster's Ball, Sankofa, and many more.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0742526410
• ISBN 13: 9780742526419
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144