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Trying to Get Over : African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477309094
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trying to Get OverDDC classification:
  • 791.43/652996073
LOC classification:
  • PN1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood -- 2. Our Man in Hollywood Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz -- 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier's Move Behind the Ca mera -- 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred "the Hammer" Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition -- 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking -- 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan -- 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince -- Conclusion -- Filmography, 1969-1994 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood -- 2. Our Man in Hollywood Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz -- 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier's Move Behind the Ca mera -- 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred "the Hammer" Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition -- 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking -- 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan -- 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince -- Conclusion -- Filmography, 1969-1994 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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