Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers John Gray 9780313274862

This is a comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6,000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer historical perspective on the black image in film, bibliographical material on filmmakers and individual artists, and exciting information on newly emerging talent throughout the world.

Drawing on a wide variety of resource materials, the study furnishes extensive coverage of developments in filmmaking in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean, followed by a thorough examination of the African-American film experience. Two appendixes provide supplementary data on reference works, and names and addresses of notable film resource centers. Four indexes keyed by artist, title, subject, and author complete the work, which proves to be a valuable reference work for scholars and historians in the field of blacks in film.

JOHN GRAY is a cultural historian specializing in Black culture and Director of the Black Arts Research Center, an archival resource center dedicated to documenting the performance traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora. His previous publications include Blacks in Classical Music (Greenwood Press, 1988), Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora (Greenwood, 1989), and Black Theatre and Performance: A Pan-African Bibliography (Greenwood, 1990).