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Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the... -
Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and... -
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama 9780292717459
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Winner, Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2008Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility... -
Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times by Susana Loza 9781498507967
Booksplease Price: £85.65Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the (settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Black Cinema & Visual Culture: Art and Politics in the 21st Century by Artel Great
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This culturally and politically timely collection examines new Black films and moving images that have, once again, excited and possibly shifted the global media landscape. At a moment some scholars... -
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen by Gerald R. Butters 9780700611973
Booksplease Price: £45.26In early-20th-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. However, few people realize that from 1915 to 1929 a number of... -
Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture by Krin Gabbard 9780813533841
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.45Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly... -
Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film Melvin Donalson 9780786423019
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Feature films function as a keeper of America's collective conscience--a repository of fears, guilt, and hopes. "Buddy films" about men of different races depict a world where a peaceful balance... -
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 by Anna Everett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much... -
Black Film/White Money by Jesse Algernon Rhines 9780813522678
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Why are there so few Black filmmakers who control their own work? Why are there scarcely any Black women behind the camera? What happens to Black filmmakers when they move from independent production... -
Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals by Julia Lee 9780816698226
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film by Arthur Knight
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film by Arthur Knight 9780822329350
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Asian America through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identities by Jun Xing 9780761991762
Booksplease Price: £44.31While some Asian American films and filmmakers are beginning to achieve acclaim in mainstream U.S. culture, neither academic scholars nor society as a whole has sufficiently taken account of the... -
Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age by Ian Gregory Strachan 9781501319822
Booksplease Price: £40.38Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at times criticized for the roles he played during a career that spanned 60 years, there can be no...