Films originally produced 1915-1946. Booklet, titled Pioneers of African-American cinema: film notes, includes an introduction by Paul D. Miller (aka D.J. Spooky), and essays by Charles Musser, ...
The Newark Black Film Festival began in 1974 and has since become the longest-running festival of Black cinema in the United States. A year later, an independent film named "Cooley High," about four ...
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In the early part of the 20th century, black filmmakers were forced to work outside the white Hollywood mainstream -- and produced around 500 films, mainly for black audiences. To preserve this ...
Cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest returns to louse up the Black Panther era. To comprehend the excitement generated by those first blaxploitation releases, one has to consider the blinding whiteness of ...
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Washington University’s African Film Festival will commemorate twenty years when it returns to Brown Hall from March 27-March 29. This year marks a major milestone for Washington University’s African ...
volume 1. Theater, film, and television -- volume 2. Sports -- volume 3. Music and popular art Volume I: Theater, film, and television. The politics of representation in African American theater and ...
The new Blu-ray DVD set collects some of the most important African-American filmmaking of the past century. 'Pioneers Of African-American Cinema' Collects Important Black Filmmaking A new Blu-ray DVD ...
Oscar Micheaux, Metropolis native and the country’s first major African American film maker, is returning to the silver screen. In honor of Black History Month, the Paducah Film Society will present a ...
Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black revolutionary’s survival on the run — proved a milestone of independent and ...
With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy ...