Black film as a signifying practice : cinema, narration and the African American aesthetic tradition

Black film as a signifying practice : cinema, narration and the African American aesthetic tradition / Gladstone L. Yearwood.

"In Black Film as a Signifying Practice, Gladstone Yearwood explores cinema as part of the black cultural tradition. He argues that black film criticism is best understood as a 20th century development in the history of African-American aesthetic thought, which provides a substantive and accumu...

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Main Author: Yearwood, Gladstone Lloyd
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Perspectives on Black Film Theory and Criticism
  • pt. 1. Theory and Historiography. Ch. 2. The Emergence of the Black Independent Film Movement. Ch. 3. Theorizing Black Film. Ch. 4. Narration as a Cultural Process in Black Film
  • pt. 2. Criticism. Ch. 5. Myth and Narrative in The Harder They Come. Ch. 6. Narrative Transformation in Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song. Ch. 7. Narration as Cultural Memory in Daughters of the Dust. Ch. 8. The Historical Narrative in Black Film.

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