Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation /
Christopher Sieving.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.
- x, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Wesleyan film .
- Wesleyan film. .
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.