Black American cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara.

Other author Diawara, Manthia, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©1993.
Descriptionx, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAFI 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 noteLittle-284233
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
LCCN 92032907
ISBN0415903963
ISBN0415903971