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Black images in American movies

Title
  1. Black images in American movies [videorecording] / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Published by
  1. 1987-05-20.

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Additional authors
  1. Bogle, Donald.
  2. Murray, James Briggs.
  3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
  1. 6 videocassettes of 6 (U-matic) (107 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Donald Bogle lectures on black images in American movies focusing on the roles black performers play in Hollywood films. The lecture is based on Mr. Bogle's book entitled "Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films" and is structured around those black stereotypes. Actors and actresses mentioned include Bill Robinson, Sydney Poitier, Ossie Davis, L.B. Jones, Steppin Fetchit, Willie Best, Mantan Moreland, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross, Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson, Jauno Hernandez and Jim Brown. Bogle also mentions the Blaxploitation films and two superstars, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.
Subject
  1. Bogle, Donald
  2. African Americans in the motion picture industry
  3. African American motion picture actors and actresses > History
  4. Motion pictures > United States > History
  5. Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > History
Genre/Form
  1. Black films and programs.
  2. Instruction.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual VRA-143a-b
Note
  1. Taped at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.
Title
  1. Black images in American movies [videorecording] / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Imprint
  1. 1987-05-20.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
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Added author
  1. Bogle, Donald. nar
  2. Murray, James Briggs. Production personnel
  3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual VRB-364 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-143a-b.
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