num_pages: 464
description: A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR  BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE  ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAt once a film book a history book and a civil rights book. Without a doubt not only the very best film book [but] also one of the best books of the year in any genre. An absolutely essential read.  ShondalandThis unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black moviesfrom Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther using the struggles and triumphs of the artists and the films themselves as a prism to explore Black culture civil rights and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown .Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbusterWil Haygood gives us an incisive fascinating little-known history spanning more than a century of Black artists in the film business on-screen and behind the scenes. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships from the assassination of Malcolm X to the O. J. Simpson trial to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselvesincluding Imitation of Life Gone with the Wind Porgy and Bess the Blaxploitation films of the seventies Do The Right Thing 12 Years a Slave and Black Panther . And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary Hattie McDaniel Sidney Poitier Berry Gordy Alex Haley Spike Lee Billy Dee Willliams Richard Pryor Halle Berry Ava DuVernay and Jordan Peele among many others. An important timely book Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.
language: English
title: Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
publisher: Knopf