Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Smith, Valerie, 1956-

Description

1. viii, 240 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Rutgers depth of field series

Subject

1. African Americans in motion pictures
2. African Americans in the motion picture industry

Contents

1. Black beginnings : from Uncle Tom's cabin to The birth of a nation / Donald Bogle -- Spectatorship and capture in King Kong / James A. Snead -- "Race movies" as voices of the Black bourgeoisie : The scar of shame / Thomas Cripps -- The scar of shame : skin color and caste in Black silent melodrama / Jane Gaines -- A no-theory theory of contemporary Black cinema / Tommy L. Lott -- But compared to what? : reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School daze, Do the right thing, and the Spike Lee discourse / Wahneema Lubiano -- What is this "Black" in Black popular culture? / Stuart Hall -- Innocence and ambiguity in the films of Charles Burnett / Nathan Grant -- Visible silence : spectatorship in Black gay and lesbian film / David Van Leer -- Haile Gerima and the political economy of cinematic resistance / Mike Murashige -- Telling family secrets : narrative and ideology in Suzanne Suzanne / Valerie Smith.

Call number

1. Sc E 97-610

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.

Title

1. Representing Blackness : issues in film and video / edited with an introduction by Valerie Smith.

Imprint

1. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

Series

1. Rutgers depth of field series

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.

Added author

1. Smith, Valerie, 1956-

LCCN

1. 96036075

ISBN

1. 0813523133 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0813523141 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 97-610