"Money Shot" chronicles the African American porn industry's steady rise to the mainstream. Lawrence Ross, a prominent journalist and lecturer, details a year in the life of porn star Lexington Steele, whose eleven-inch penis and $75,000 per-movie-fee made him one of the most famous figures in the porn industry. Beginning and ending with ...
The seminal essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independence cinema. Among the topics discussed are racial stereotypes, critiques of that discourse, important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and black, ...
In this portrait of their historic and present day contributions, Rhines explores the roles African American men and women have played in the motion picture business from 1915 to 1996. He illuminates his discussion by linking the history of early black filmmakers to the current success of African American filmmakers, and examines how African ...
Images of African Americans abound in United States' culture - on television, in films, on the radio and in newsprint. Whether in works by African Americans - most notably popular music, film and now television programmes - or works about African Americans, from documentaries to news coverage, strong images pervade our public consciousness. ...
Cripps's Slow to Fade To Black: The Negro In American Film, 1900-1942, is considered the basic work on blacks' involvement in film, both in Hollywood and outside it. Making Movies Black continues the story up into the 1950s. It discusses the greater attention to black life in films of the early war years, including the all-black Cabin in The Sky, ...
This book offers a wide-ranging and accessible account of the complex relations between black communities and popular media like film and television. These relations have often been discussed in terms of stereotype and misrepresentation. However Ross argues that, while it is still true that many black characters in film and TV are drawn from a ...
Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written - and sometimes produced - by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors and or screenwriters are not black. Taking us through the development of African American independent filmmaking before and after World War II, Mark A. Reid then illustrates ...
Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered 'black films'? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous black film criticism has 'buried' the true black ...
"Frame by Frame III" continues the work of documenting the participation of African Americans in cinema and illuminating their important contributions to the art of filmmaking. African Americans are screenwriters, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants who contribute their talents to a film industry that scarcely recognizes them. ...
The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses this event as a jumping ...
Containing a rich body of reference information, critical essays by prominent film scholars, biographies, film reviews, and multimedia elements such as movie clips, this CD-ROM traces the history of black filmmakers from 1894 to 1950. It's easy to navigate and accompanied by a thirty-two-page guide, which contains suggested classroom exercises as ...
-- Tells the stories of notable groups of people of color -- A companion series to the award-winning Black Americans of Achievement biographies Generation X film fans probably know Spike Lee, but few know who paved the way for him and future black filmmakers. This title sheds light on the all-but-forgotten names of the past.
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