Black American cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara.
| Other author | Diawara, Manthia, 1953- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, ©1993. |
| Description | x, 324 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | AFI film readers AFI film readers. ^A253893 |
| Contents | Black American cinema : the new realism / Manthia Diawara -- "Twoness" in the style of Oscar Micheaux / J. Ronald Green -- Fire and desire : race, melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux / Jane Gaines -- Oscar Micheaux : the story continues / Thomas Cripps -- The black writer in Hollywood, circa 1930 : the case of Wallace Thurman / Phyllis Klotman -- Is Car wash a black musical? / Richard Dyer -- The Los Angeles school of black filmmakers / Ntongela Masilela -- Reading the signs, empowering the eye : Daughters of the dust and the black independent cinema movement / Toni Cade Bambara -- Spike Lee at the movies / Amiri Baraka -- Spike Lee and the commerce of culture / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- The ironies of palace-subaltern discourse / Clyde Taylor -- Looking for modernism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Contents | Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara -- The Harlem theatre : black film exhibition in Austin, Texas : 1920-1973 / Dan Streible -- The black image in protective custody : Hollywood's biracial buddy films of the eighties / Ed Guerrero -- The construction of black sexuality : towards normalizing the black cinematic experience / Jacquie Jones -- Race, gender, and psychoanalysis in forties film : Lost boundaries, Home of the brave, and The quiet one / Michele Wallace -- Reading through the text : the black woman as audience / Jacqueline Bobo -- The oppositional gaze : black female spectators / Bell Hooks. |
| Local note | Little-284233 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index. |
| LCCN | 92032907 |
| ISBN | 0415903963 |
| ISBN | 0415903971 |