Literary adaptations in Black American cinema
Subtitle: from Micheaux to Morrison
By: Barbara Tepa Lupack.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
Subjects: African Americans in motion pictures; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-531) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Birth of Defamation: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Beginnings of Black Stereotyping 1; title: 2. "A Credit to the Race": Oscar Micheaux and Early Race Filmmaking 67; title: 3. "We'll Teach Him Fear": Racial Representation in Sound Films of the 1930s and 1940s 183; title: 4. Uncle Tom Meets Uncle Sam: Wartime Developments and Postwar Progress 243; title: 5. From Eisenhower to Black Power: Radicalizing the Black Hero 299; title: 6. "Tell Them I'm a Man": Popularizing Black History 379; title: 7. History to Herstory: New Voices for a New Century 447.