Book
Historical dictionary of African American cinema
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2nd edition
2015
Abstract
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. 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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Historical dictionary of African American cinema
- Creators
- S Torriano BerryVenise T Berry - University of Iowa, Journalism and Mass Communication
- Resource Type
- Book
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Lanham, Maryland
- Series
- Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
- ISBN
- 9781442247017; 1442247010
- eISBN
- 9781442247024; 1442247029
- Number of pages
- 568 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9983790794802771
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