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Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986
- Title
- Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986 / Keith Corson.
- Author
- Corson, Keith
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 275 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Motion pictures
- Blaxploitation films
- Blaxploitation films > United States > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- African American motion picture producers and directors
- African Americans in motion pictures
- United States
- 2000 - 2099
- African Americans in the motion picture industry
- Popular culture > United States > 21st century
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century
- History
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259), filmography (pages 209-220) and index.
- Contents
- Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood -- Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz -- Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier's Move Behind the Camera -- Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition -- Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking -- Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan -- Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-921
- ISBN
- 9781477309070
- 1477309071
- 9781477309087
- 147730908X
- 9781477309094 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781477309100 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015023681
- OCLC
- 913469960
- Author
- Corson, Keith, author.
- Title
- Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986 / Keith Corson.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259), filmography (pages 209-220) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000 - 2099
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 C818tr txdocs
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-921