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Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation / Christopher Sieving.

By: Series: Wesleyan filmPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.Description: x, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780819571328 (alk. paper)
  • 0819571326 (alk. paper)
  • 9780819571335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0819571334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819571342 (e-book)
  • 0819571342 (e-book)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/652996073 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 S54 2011
Contents:
Introduction -- The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- The 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.

Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- The 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.

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