Representing Blackness
Subtitle: Issues in Film and Video (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780813523149
Subjects: Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Film & Video - History & Criticism; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; African Americans in the motio; African Americans in motion pi; African Americans in motion pictures
First sentence: In the beginning, there was an Uncle Tom.
Description: The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that disclosure, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.