Post-Soul Black Cinema traces the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cinema. The author writes a cogent history of African American participation in the American film industry. The ability of the book to break down the myths and highlight the important transformational moments that saw African Americans move from the margins to the mainstream to positions of power cannot be ignored. This book looks at contemporary Black cinema and the current trials and tribulations in the movie business. It is a useful addition to...
Post-Soul Black Cinema traces the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cine...
Originally published in 1921, this book was intended for non-Scottish students of Scottish literature as a guide for recitation and declamation of Scottish pieces. The text is divided into three parts: the first gives the phonetic symbols for the sounds of modern Scots, the second contrasts Scots grammar with standard English usage and gives illustrations from Scottish literature, and the third contains extracts from modern Scots writers with phonetic transcriptions on the facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the pronunciation of Scottish literature or in...
Originally published in 1921, this book was intended for non-Scottish students of Scottish literature as a guide for recitation and declamation of Sco...
First published in 1913, this book was originally intended as a manual for students in Scottish training colleges and for teachers of English in Scottish schools. Grant supplies passages from well-known literature translated into the phonetic alphabet for both the declamatory and conversational styles. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of phonetics and the presentation of Scottish accents to an English audience.
First published in 1913, this book was originally intended as a manual for students in Scottish training colleges and for teachers of English in Scott...
Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their African successors in the context of history and the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing colonial society with that of the independent African country that Northern Rhodesia has become. Colonialism is viewed at the day to day level of the administration of a rural district by four officers and a handful of African district messengers, who worked together without even...
Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their Afri...
