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Books on: african american filmmakers

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

Book by John Gray; Greenwood Press, 1990

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African American Motion Picture Actors And Actresses--Bibliography, African Americans In Motion Pictures--Bibliography, African Americans In Television Broadcasting--Bibliography, African Americans In The Motion Picture Industry--Bibliography, Motion Picture Industry--Africa--Bibliography, Motion Pictures--Africa--Bibliography

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...November 10 1986 : 54-56. 2622. Nicholson, David. "Independent, and Liking It." American Visions July/ August 1986 : 53-55. Profiles filmmakers Kathleen Collins, Spike Lee, Michelle Parkerson, Billy Woodberry and their films. 2623...
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Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers

Book by Spencer Moon; Greenwood Press, 1997

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African American Motion Picture Producers And Directors--Encyclopedias, African American Motion Picture Producers And Directors--Interviews

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...significant participation by African Americans as producers who can...progress of African Americans in the Hollywood style...CONTEXT AND POWER African American participation in the...and starring African Americans. The question of whose...for African American filmmakers can be a schizophrenic...
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Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers

Book by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike; University of Minnesota Press, 2002

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Motion Picture Producers And Directors--Africa--Interviews, Motion Pictures--Africa

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...films do. African cinema, like African culture, is based in the social...fact that it is possible to view African filmmakers in the tradition of the Euro-American auteur, make the mistake of seeing African films merely as products of individual...
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Imagining the African American West

Book by Blake Allmendinger; University of Nebraska Press, 2005

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African Americans In Literature, African Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography--History And Criticism, African Americans--West (U.S.)--Historiography, African Americans--West (U.S.)--History, African Americans--West (U.S.)--Intellectual Life, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--West (U.S.)--History And Criticism, Frontier And Pioneer Life In Literature, West (U.S.)--Historiography, West (U.S.)--In Literature, West (U.S.)--Intellectual Life

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...the film, the figure of the African American cowboy is a dim comic memory...same time challenged early African American filmmakers. Typically, it featured a...relevant to a predominantly urban African American audience, filmmakers...
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Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice

Book by Frankie Y. Bailey, Alice P. Green; Praeger Publishers, 1999

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African Americans--Civil Rights--History, African Americans--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--History, African Americans--Social Conditions, Crime And Race--United States--History, Discrimination In Criminal Justice Administration--United States--History

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...black urban films many by young African American filmmakers such as New Yack City, Straight...renditions of events from the African American past. These films...between Steven Spielberg and the African American actor Debbie Allen...

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Journal Articles on: african american filmmakers

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The Triple Duty of a Black Woman Filmmaker: An Interview with Carmen Coustaut

Journal article by Patricia Ferreira; African American Review, Vol. 27, 1993

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African American filmmakers--Interviews, Coustaut, Carmen--Interviews, Women filmmakers--Interviews

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...black woman filmmaker: an interview...brutality in the African American community...young African Americans. Her second...an African American woman, Coustaut...American women filmmakers. In 1988 she...teacher and a filmmaker, and although...project on African American women filmmakers suffers, and...
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Echoes of Africa in to Sleep with Anger and Eve's Bayou

Journal article by Mary Ellison; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005

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African American filmmakers--Works, African American movie directors--Works, African culture--Forecasts and trends, Eve's Bayou (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, To Sleep with Anger (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation

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...films made African American filmmakers that have...in African American culture that...created uniquely American musical and...discrimination by white Americans. While generally...status as a filmmaker with his 1977...independent black filmmaker and teacher...images of African Americans as people...black women filmmakers have a uniquely...of African American communities...
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Which Way to the Promised Land?: Spike Lee's Clockers and the Legacy of the African American City

Journal article by Paula J. Massood; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001

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African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., City and town life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Filmmakers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lee, Spike--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...many contemporary African American filmmakers, who use similar...grounded in African-American cultural assumptions...psychic makeup of the African-American community...the ways in which African American filmmakers (in this discussion...
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Memory and the Phantom South in African American Migration Film

Journal article by Jeannine King; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 63, 2010

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African Americans--Emigration and immigration, Black identity--Portrayals, Blacks--Portrayals, Blacks--Race identity, Burnett, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Collective memory--Analysis, Dash, Julie--Criticism and interpretation, Daughters of the Dust (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery--Influence, To Sleep with Anger (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Trick Baby (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Yust, Larry--Criticism and interpretation

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...Phantom South in African American Migration Film. by Jeannine...traditional boundaries of African American literature. They use exaggerated...traditional depictions of African Americans. The LA Rebellion was...oppressively anchored the history of American cinema since its inception...importation of "purebred" Africans, the Ibos mythic walking...
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No Accident: From Black Power to Black Box Office

Journal article by William Lyne; African American Review, Vol. 34, 2000

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African American filmmakers--Political activity, African American political scientists--Attitudes, African Americans--Political activity, Blacks--Social aspects, Lee, Spike--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Racism--Social aspects

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...of the fate of African American transformationist...controlled by African Americans" 7). The success...long history of African-American nationalism in...If African-Americans conclude that...that demonizes African Americans and drugs in his...Diawara, Black American Cinema 145-53...

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Magazine Articles on: african american filmmakers

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Filmmaker Euzhan Palcy-A Palette of Passion

Magazine article by Karani Marcia Leslie; American Visions, Vol. 15, August 2000

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African American filmmakers--Biography, Palcy, Euzhan--Biography

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...film for a major American studio. In 1997...everyone can be a filmmaker, so I feel that filmmakers have a responsibility...if I would be a filmmaker, or an artist...determined to become a filmmaker. At age 17...films of African filmmakers, such as Ousmane...to hire South African actors to portray...of black South Africans, as well as those...
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A Global Business in the Making: Some of Africa's Best Filmmakers-Including a Host of New Talent-Gathered in London for a Two-Day Conference to Gauge the Progress of African Cinema in Reaching out to Wider Audiences. the Cinematic Landscape Is Changing in Favour of Africa but Can the Continent's Industry Make Its Leap into the Big Time? Alexa Dalby Discussed the Issue with Africa's Film Expert, Keith Shiri

Magazine article by Keith Shiri; African Business, December 2010

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African movies--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Motion picture industry--Management, Motion pictures, African--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Movie industry--Management, Shiri, Keith--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

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...Shiri. "North American dominance on world...Energetic young filmmakers Shiri is one of...coming from young African filmmakers who...sudden interest in African films made by Africans living in the...made by capable filmmakers," says Shiri...technology. Any filmmaker can acquire a...Whilst pan-African distribution solutions...
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We've Gotta Have It : A Forum -- Black Filmmakers Seize the Moment

Magazine article by Gene Seymour; The Nation, Vol. 272, April 2, 2001

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African American directors--Interviews, African American filmmakers--Interviews, Hudlin, Reginald--Interviews, Lemmons, Kasi--Interviews, Motion picture industry--Analysis, Movie industry--Analysis, Peebles, Melvin Van--Interviews, Ridley, John--Interviews, Spikes, Stacy--Interviews

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...A Forum -- Black Filmmakers Seize the Moment...better time to be an African-American filmmaker," Spike Lee wrote...breadth of African-American movie-makers work...comedies with African-American leads are swiftly...and with African-Americans were pulling in some...African-American filmmakers who have shown the...
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A Conversation with Spike Lee: The Filmmaker of Few Words Gives Ebony Magazine an Earful about His Latest Film, His Thoughts on the Presidential Election and the Responsibility Black Folks Have to Step Up. His Next Project Is a Documentary on NBA MVP Kobe Bryant

Magazine article by Habbiette Cole; Ebony, Vol. 63, October 2008

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African American filmmakers, African American movie directors, Lee, Spike

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...with Spike Lee: The Filmmaker of Few Words Gives Ebony...of the 1.1 million African-American women and men who were...these are patriots, American heroes who fought for...ditch digger, teacher, filmmaker, rapper, athlete...
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Nollywood Goes to America: Leslie Goffe Reports on the Rise of Nigerian-Themed Filmmaking in the USA, Which Proves That There Is More to Africa Than the Depictions in the Films Hotel Rwanda or Blood Diamond

Magazine article by Leslie Goffe; New African, April 2010

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African American filmmakers--Works, African American movie directors--Works, African movies--International aspects, Cultural relations--Management, Motion pictures, African--International aspects

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...self-taught filmmaker who worked for...search of the "American Dream". He soon...white and black Americans alike and betrayal...films, it has an American twist to it...making movies like African Mafioso and Love...Americanised Africans", immigrants...based on the American TV show Desperate...class Nigerian-Americans so desperate to...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american filmmakers

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Work of Black Filmmakers, Muddy Waters Celebrated; 'Color Purple' Reissue Coming on DVD

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Work of black filmmakers, Muddy Waters celebrated...illiteracy). The filmmakers present some terrific...Portrait of Independent African-American Filmmaking" unfortunately...meanwhile, reissues the African-Jamaican cult classic...include feature-length filmmaker commentaries, among...
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Filmmaker Goes 'Deep' for Ocean's Rich Life

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 18, 2005

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Kent, Rockwell

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Filmmaker Goes Deep for Oceans...ocean sequences, the filmmakers leased a resource that...shot, a documentary filmmaker and Ohio University...forgotten figure of American art and publishing...John Gilbert as an American soldier in World War...Close-up in Black: African-American Film Posters...
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'Blues': PBS Embalms a Living Tradition; Scorsese Assembles Visions from 7 Filmmakers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 26, 2003

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Scorsese, Martin

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...assembles visions from 7 filmmakers. Byline: Scott Galupo...documentaries directed by seven filmmakers, including Mr. Scorsese...a trip to the West African country Mali, where...there are "no black Americans," only "blacks in...rise to the distinctly American form that is the blues...the blues for white American audiences that, because...
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Devil or God? Filmmakers' Lee Is Neither

Newspaper article by W. Drew Perkins, Bill Reifenberger; The Washington Times, June 17, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Devil or god? Filmmakers Lee is neither...influential Americans in our history...contemporary American society as it...influential American never to have...the interest Americans hold in Lee...display titled "African Americans in Confederate...to preserving American history, sponsors...
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Face to Face with General Butt Naked - 'The Most Evil Man in the World'; He's the African Warlord Who's Admitted Cannibalism, Child Sacrifice and Using His Cocaine-Crazed Boy Soldiers to Kill 20,000 People. Now in an Extraordinary Meeting, a Mail on Sunday Writer Comes. Now He Fears Losing His Own Children

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 28, 2010

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Child soldiers--Casualties, Cocaine--Casualties, Military maneuvers--Casualties, Military operations--Casualties, Murder--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the World; Hes the African Warlord Whos Admitted...Liberia is the only African country without roots...and colonised by freed American slaves in the early...is the subject of an American documentary at the Sundance...Festival next year. The filmmakers interest was the same...

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