[Download Book] Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World By Wil Haygood
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
By : Wil Haygood
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Book Synopsis :
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 culture, civil rights, and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown.Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes.He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. J. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films
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Author : Wil Haygood
Pages : 464 pages
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
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ISBN-10 : 0525656871
ISBN-13 : 9780525656876
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