The politics and poetics of black film : Nothing but a man

The politics and poetics of black film : Nothing but a man / edited by David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin.

Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fr...

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Other Authors: Martin, Michael T. (Editor), Wall, David C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Series:Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora.
Subjects:
Nothing but a man (Motion picture)
African Americans in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
African Americans in motion pictures
Race relations in motion pictures
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nothing but a man and the question of black film / David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin
  • Filmmakers' statements / Michael Roemer, Robert Young
  • Essays. Demanding dignity: Nothing but a man / Bruce Dick and Mark Vogel
  • Nothing but a man / Thomas Cripps
  • The derailed romance in Nothing but a man / Karen Bowdre
  • Can't stay, can't go: what is history to a cinematic imagination? / Terri Francis
  • Rights, labor, and sexual politics on screen in Nothing but a man / Judith E. Smith
  • Interviews. Historicity and possibility in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Khalil Muhammad / Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall
  • Cinematic principles and practice at work in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Robert Young / Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall.

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