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{en} Lindsay Patterson (ed.), Black Films and Film-Makers: A Comprehensive Anthology from Stereotype to Superhero (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)

Abstract

"Collects twenty-nine essays and articles on the development and importance of black films, examining their images of black life and character, outstanding individual films, black actors and film-makers, and current trends."--

Contents

Of motion pictures / Lawrence Reddick -- Folk values in a new medium / Alain Locke and Sterling A. Brown -- Uncle Tom will never die! / Arthur Draper -- Beige, brown, or black / Albert Johnson -- Pro-Negro films in Atlanta / Gerald Weales -- The death of Rastus : Negroes in American films since 1945 / Thomas R. Cripps -- Which way the Black film / Richard Wesley -- The birth of Birth of a Nation / Bosley Crowther -- Hearts in Dixie (the first real talking picture) / Robert Benchley -- Carmen Jones : the dark is light enough / James Baldwin -- It's gonna blow whitey's mind / Lindsay Patterson -- Sounder : a Hollywood fantasy? / Lindsay Patterson -- Book of numbers / Maurice Peterson -- The Negro actor and the American movies / Geraldyn Dismond -- The Negro invades Hollywood / Floyd C. Covington -- The Negro and the cinema / William Harrison -- Hollywood report / William Thomas Smith -- Lena / Lena Horne and Richard Schickel -- The Negro in American films : some recent works / Albert Johnson -- Black men or good niggers? / Catherine Sugy -- The day Black movie stars got militant / Michael Mattox -- Black women in films : a mixed bag of tricks / Edward Mapp -- History of Negro motion pictures / James Asendio -- In movies whitey is still king / Lindsay Patterson -- A Black odyssey : Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song / Melvin Van Peebles -- Black movies / Charles Michener -- The subject is money / James P. Murray -- Notes on Black movies / Pauline Kael

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