Colorization : one hundred years of black films in a white world
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Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780525656876, 0525656871
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780525656876, 0525656871
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi Book published By Alfred A. Knopf."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, onscreen and behind the scenes. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X to the O.J. Simpson trial to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves--including The Imitation of Life, Gone With the Wind, Porgy & Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the 70s, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava Duvernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others. An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema, and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Haygood, W. (2021). Colorization: one hundred years of black films in a white world (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Haygood, Wil. 2021. Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Haygood, Wil. Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Haygood, Wil. Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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