Black cinema treasures : lost and found
Record details
- OCLC: ocm45727407
- ISBN: 9781574410280
- ISBN: 1574410288
- ISBN: 9780929398365
- ISBN: 092939836X
- ISBN: 9780929398266
- ISBN: 0929398262
- ISBN: 9780585312439
- ISBN: 0585312435
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©1991.
Content descriptions
Bibliography: | Filmography: pages 191-232. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index. |
Contents: | Foreword / by Ossie Davis -- Introduction: King Tut's Warehouse: Finding the Films -- The Non-White World of All-Black Cinema -- Some Pioneer Black Filmmakers: Oscar Micheaux: the Dean of Black Filmmakers -- Spencer Williams -- William Alexander -- George Randol -- The Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection: The Blood of Jesus -- Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. -- The Girl in Room 20 -- Juke Joint -- Marching On -- Midnight Shadow -- Miracle in Harlem -- Murder in Harlem (Lem Hawkins' Confession) -- Souls of Sin -- By-Line Newsreels (Four Episodes) -- Other Short Films in the Collection: Broken Earth -- Boogie Woogie Blues -- Daughters of the Isle of Jamaica -- Harlem Hot-Shots -- Junior Jeeps -- Vanities -- Comments from Some of Today's Black Filmmakers: How the Films Were Produced, Distributed, Exhibited -- and What Became of the System -- What Black Independent Films Meant to the Black Community -- Working With Spencer Williams -- A Final Comment: "We Could Have Been Friends." |
Note: | English. |