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{en} Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, 4th ed. (New York : Continuum, 2001)

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  1st ed. (1973)

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  2nd ed. (1989)

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  3rd ed. (1994)

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  4th ed. (2001)

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  5th ed. (2016)

Abstract

Fourth edition of a very influential and successful work, examining the role of Blacks in American films.

"In this classic study of Black images in American motion pictures, Donald Bogle presents historical and social reflections on the complex relationship between African Americans and Hollywood. From The Birth of a Nation, the 1934 Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, and Carmen Jones to Shaft, Do the Right Thing, and Boyz N the Hood, the author interrogates questions of diversity in the film industry and reveals how images of Black Americans in the movies have significantly changed over the course of the 20th century--as well as the shocking ways in which those images have often remained the same."--

Contents

Preface to the fourth edition -- Introduction -- Black beginnings: from Uncle Tom's cabin to The birth of a nation -- Into the 1920s: the jesters -- The 1930s: the servants -- The interlude: Black-market cinema -- The 1940s: the entertainers, the new Negroes, and the problem people -- The 1950s: Black stars -- The 1960s: problem people into militants -- The 1970s: bucks and a Black movie boom -- The 1980s: Black superstars and the era of tan -- The 1990s: new stars, new filmmakers, and a new African American cinema.

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