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• The Measure of a Man

  a Spiritual Autobiography

  Poitier, Sidney

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  In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cinema Civil Rights

  Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era

  Scott, Ellen C., 1978-

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  From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the "N-word." This censorship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Colorization

  One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World

  Haygood, Wil

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  This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies--from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther --using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era

  Shandell, Jonathan,

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  "Jonathan Shandell provides the first in-depth study of the historic American Negro Theatre (ANT) and its lasting influence on American popular culture. Founded in 1940 in Harlem, the ANT successfully balanced expressions of African American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Framing the South

  Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle

  Graham, Allison

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  What patterns emerge in media coverage and character depiction of Southern men and women, blacks and whites, in the years between 1954 and 1976? How do portrayals of the region and the equal rights movement illuminate the spirit and experience of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poitier Revisited

  Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age

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  Poitier Revisited offers a fresh interrogation of the social, cultural and political significance of the Poitier oeuvre. The contributions explore the broad spectrum of critical issues summoned up by Poitier's iconic work as actor, director and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television

  Moody, David L., 1957-

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  Examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television. Black images on the silver screen date back to the silent film era, yet these films and television programs presented…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness

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  African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poitier Effect

  Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation

  Willis, Sharon, 1955- ,

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  The Poitier effect, in Willis's account, is a function of white wishful thinking about race relations. It represents a dream of achieving racial reconciliation and equality without any substantive change to the white world.

• Life Beyond Measure

  Poitier, Sidney

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  Poitier reflects on this amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter. Writing for all who admire his example and who search for wisdom only a man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks

  An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films

  Bogle, Donald,

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  Since the previous edition of Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks (2001), the relationship between African American performers and Hollywood has developed further, calling for another examination. Every year since 2001, at least one African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Footnotes

  the Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

  Gaines, Caseen, 1986-

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  The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre--and the world--forever.

• Black Hollywood

  From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies

  Fain, Kimberly, 1974-

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  Moving through cinematic history decade by decade since 1910, this important volume explores the appropriation, exploitation, and agency of black performers in Hollywood by looking at the black actors, directors, and producers who have shaped the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's Always Loud in the Balcony

  a Life in Black Theater, From Harlem to Hollywood and Back

  Wesley, Richard, 1945-

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  Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he became part of a seismic force in American culture, breaking down barriers and helping to disrupt the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sidney Poitier

  Bergman, Carol

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  Traces the life of the movie actor who won an Academy Award in 1964 and became a symbol of the breakthrough of Black performers in motion pictures.

• Hollywood Black

  the Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers

  Bogle, Donald,

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  "The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Broadway

  African Americans on the Great White Way

  Lane, Stewart F.

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  In this remarkable book, theater producer and historian Stewart F. Lane uses words and pictures to capture this tumultuous century and to highlight the rocky road that black actors have travelled to reach recognition on the Great White Way.

• Black Children in Hollywood Cinema

  Cast in Shadow

  Olson, Debbie C., 1961-

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  This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children's studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blackness Is Burning

  Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition

  Russworm, TreaAndrea M.,

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  "One of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier's popular films, black mother and daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Hollywood the Way It Was

  Burnt Cork - Part 1

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  This program takes a glimpse into the archives of the motion picture industry and journeys back to the beginning with the invention of the first moving picture and follows the impact of African Americans in its development.