Sieving, Christopher.

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.

9780819571328 (alk. paper) 0819571326 (alk. paper) 9780819571335 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0819571334 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780819571342 (e-book) 0819571342 (e-book)

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African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.

PN1995.9.N4 / S54 2011

791.43/652996073