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Framing Blackness by Ed Guerrero
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and... -
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero (New York University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the... -
Speculative Imperialisms by Susana Loza
SciFier: £87.99Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the (settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the... -
Black Magic by Krin Gabbard
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.49Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly... -
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen Gerald R. Butters 9780700611973
SciFier: £45.99In early-20th-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. However, few people realize that from 1915 to 1929 a number of... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
SciFier: £44.60This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film by Melvin Donalson
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Feature films function as a keeper of America's collective conscience--a repository of fears, guilt, and hopes. "Buddy films" about men of different races depict a world where a peaceful balance... -
Black Film/White Money by Jesse Rhines
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £23.99Why are there so few Black filmmakers who control their own work? Why are there scarcely any Black women behind the camera? What happens to Black filmmakers when they move from independent production... -
Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 9780816698226
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black... -
Asian America through the Lens by Jun Xing
SciFier: £44.99While some Asian American films and filmmakers are beginning to achieve acclaim in mainstream U.S. culture, neither academic scholars nor society as a whole has sufficiently taken account of the... -
Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Ian Gregory Strachan (College of The Bahamas, The Bahamas) 9781501319822
SciFier: £40.99Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at times criticized for the roles he played during a career that spanned 60 years, there can be no...