Framing Blackness - The African American Image in Film

Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.

List of contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Birth To Blaxploitation: Hollywood's Inscription of Slavery
2. Slaves, Monsters, and Others: Racial Fragment, Metaphor, and Allegory on the Commercial Screen
3. The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation
4. Recuperation, Representation, and Resistance: Black Cinema through the 1980s
5. Black Film in the 1990s: The New Black Movie Boom and Its Portents
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ed Guerrero, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, lectures and publishes widely on black cinema and has worked on documentary film projects for PBS and Island Records.

Summary

Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Guerrero
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1993
• EAN: 9781566391269
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-126-9
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Culture And The Moving Image; Culture & the Moving Image S.; Culture And The Moving Image; Culture & the Moving Image S.; Culture & the Moving Image
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet