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The book that inspired the MGM+ docuseries, Hollywood Black is a sweeping overview of the Black experience in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. Filled with photographs and stories of stars and filmmakers on set and off,
Hollywood Black tells an enthralling, underappreciated history as it's never before been told. Explore the rise of independent African American filmmakers and the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression. More often than not, Black performers were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some gifted performers, most notably Hattie McDaniel in
Gone With the Wind (1939), were able to turn in significant performances.
Dive deep into how Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination for
Carmen Jones (1954) and how Sidney Poitier broke ground in the industry. Follow the emergence of stars such as Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Cicely Tyson, Richard Pryor, Angela Bassett, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg, and of directors Spike Lee and John Singleton. The history comes into the new millennium with filmmakers Barry Jenkins (
Moonlight), Ava Du Vernay (
Selma),
and Ryan Coogler (
Black Panther) in this enthralling compendium of film.
A propos de l'auteur
Donald Bogle is one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in films and entertainment history. His nine books include the groundbreaking
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks; the award-winning
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams; the bestselling
Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography; and
Brown Sugar, which the author adapted into a PBS documentary series. Bogle has appeared on numerous television and radio programs; and in such documentaries as Spike Lee's
Jim Brown: All-American. He was a special commentator and consultant for Turner Classic Movies' award-winning series
Race and Hollywood. Bogle teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Manhattan.
Résumé
From Donald Bogle -- the leading authority on African Americans in film and with the backing of the leading authority on film history, Turner Classic Movies -- Hollywood Black is a riveting chronicle of black performers and filmmakers
Préface
From Donald Bogle -- the leading authority on African Americans in film and with the backing of the leading authority on film history, Turner Classic Movies -- Hollywood Black is a riveting chronicle of black performers and filmmakers
