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Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films /

This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the relationship between African Americans and Hollywood. He notes the remarkable shifts that have come about in...

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Main Author: Bogle, Donald.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Edition:Updated and expanded 5th edition.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans in motion pictures.
African American motion picture actors and actresses.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
Motion picture industry > United States > History.
Noirs américains au cinéma.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma noirs américains.
Performing Arts.
Motion picture industry.
Svarta på film, USA.
Filmindustrin, USA.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Black beginnings: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation
  • Into the 1920s: the jesters
  • The 1930s: the servants
  • The Interlude: black-market cinema
  • The 1940s: the entertainers, the New Negroes, and the problem people
  • The 1950s: black stars
  • The 1960s: problem people into militants
  • The 1970s: bucks and a black movie boom
  • The 1980s: black superstars and the era of tan
  • The 1990s: new stars, new filmmakers, and a new African American cinema
  • The new century, the new millennium: old types, new stars, new filmmakers, re-examinations of the past.

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