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From Sweetback to Super Fly: Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop
ISBN: 9780826220363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In "From "Sweetback" to "Super Fly, Gerald Buttersexamines the movie theaters in Chicago s Loop that became, as he describes them, black spaces during the early 1970s with theater managers making an effort to gear their showings toward the African American community by using black-themed and blaxploitation films.
Butters covers the wide range of issues that influenced the theaters, from changing racial patterns to the increasingly... Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Ameri...
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382,94 zł |
Banned in Kansas : Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966
ISBN: 9780826217493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If you caught a movie in Kansas through much of the past century, you're likely to have seen a different version than did the rest of America. Theda Bara's depictions of wicked sexuality were off-limits, and a film such as the 1932 Scarface showed far too much violence for decent folk--a threat to Protestant culture and to the morals of the general population. In 1915, Kansas became one of only a handful of states to establish its own film censorship board. The Kansas board controlled screen content in the state for more than fifty years, yet little is known about its... If you caught a movie in Kansas through much of the past century, you're likely to have seen a different version than did the rest of America. The... |
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295,41 zł |
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen
ISBN: 9780700611973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In early-twentieth-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. Watermelon eating, chicken thievery, savages with uncontrollable appetites, Sambo and Zip Coon were all representations associated with African American people. Most of these caricatures were rendered by whites in blackface. Few people realize that from 1915 through 1929 a number of African American film directors worked diligently to counter such racist definitions of black manhood found in films like D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, the...
In early-twentieth-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. Watermelon ea...
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264,89 zł |
Beyond Blaxploitation
ISBN: 9780814340769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and theoretical methodologies in the examination of spectatorship, marketing, melodrama, the transition of novel to screenplay, and racial politics and identity, among other significant topics. In doing so, the book fills a substantial gap that exists in the black cinematic narrative... Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitatio... |
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191,19 zł |