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black filmRedefining black film
By Mark A. Reid
1993, University of California press, Berkeley
As the ambitious title implies, the author describes the whole spectrum of black film. From the first black film companies in the 1900s to the latest works of Spike Lee and his contemporaries in the 1990s. Concisely investigating all relevant genres of black independent film, he analyses their basic similarities, differences and most relevant and apparent influences, be they black or white. Critical but somewhat political correct Reid discusses everything from comedy and action to Family film and feminism in black cinema. His conclusion is, in short, that black filmmakers, who resisted using traditional racist and sexist ideas and symbols, made influential and important works of art. In the book he;" applauds the work of black film makers. ...
Black American Cinema
Edited by: Manithia Diawara.
1993, Routledge, New York
This is a bundling of essays which contains two perspectives; that of the Black artist and his environment and that of the spectators of his work.
The various authors have not limited themselves to one subject or period but have taken on everything from Black film exhibition in Austin Texas; 1920-1973 to the black "musical" Car Wash from the seventies. Some of the essays are a bit more militant than others but a love for Afro-American culture is the red line of the book. No final conclusion on either the black filmmaker or the black audience is being made.
Black Film, White money.
By Jesse Algeron Rhines
1996, Rutgers university press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The author tries to unveil the racial motives of cinema and the relation between those motives, the black filmmakers and their black audience. First summarising black films history till the present, he then explores the basic struggle of blacks in the Hollywood industry and the racial and sexist barriers the meet. ... He concludes by urging the state to fund and support black and especially female entrepeneurship in the film industry.
Blacks in American film
By Edward Mapp
The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1972
The book surveys the role of blacks in the American film industry from its early beginnings through the entire 60s, year by year, to 1971, the year of "Shaft".
As he explains the early role of blacks in film, he explains his frame of reference towards later films.
Approximate Word count = 1871
Approximate Pages = 7.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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