Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema.
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Berry, Venise T. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. |
| Series: | Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Online Access: | Click to View |
| Summary: | This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American cinema. As early as 1909, African Americans were utilizing the new medium of cinema to catalogue the world around them, using the film camera as a device to capture their lives and their history. The daunting subject of race and ethnicity permeated life in America at the turn of the twentieth century and due to the effect of certain early films, specific television images, and an often-biased news media, it still plagues us today. As new technologies bring the power of the moving image to the masses, African Americans will shoot and edit on laptop computers and share their stories with a global audience via the World Wide Web. These independently produced visions will add to the diverse cache of African American images being displayed on an ever-expanding silver screen. This wide range of stories, topics, views, and genres will finally give the world a glimpse of African American life that has long been ignored and has yet to be seen.<br> <br> <br> <br> This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1400 cross-referenced entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American cinema.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (568 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781442247024 |
| Author Notes: | Venise T. Berry is the author of three best-selling novels: Colored Sugar Water, All of Me, AVoluptuous Tale, and So Good, An African American Love Story. She is coauthor of The 50 Most Influential Black Films and coeditor of Black Culture & Experience: Contemporary Issues and Mediated Messages and African-American Culture: Contemporary Issues 1996. She is currently completing a memoir entitled Driven and finishing her fourth novel Sansara. She Berry is currently an associate professor in African American Studies, and journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. |