Soul searching
Subtitle: Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation
By: Christopher Sieving
Series: Wesleyan film; Wesleyan film
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780819571328; 9780819571335; 9780819571342
Subjects: Motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; African Americans in motion pictures; History
Notes: Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture; title: Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema; title: The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture; title: The battle of Cleveland: Uptight and the urban Black revolution film; title: Black Hollywood meets new Hollywood: The landlord and the racial impasse film of 1970; title: Conclusion: 1960s African American cinema and the birth of blaxploitation.