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

Martin, Michael T., (editor.). Wall, David C., (editor.).

Summary: 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 fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional absence, contemporary audiences were acutely aware of the social context for the film's indictment of white prejudice in America. To help frame and situate the film in the context of black film studies, the book gathers primary and secondary resources, including the original screenplay, essays on the film, statements by the filmmakers, and interviews with Robert M. Young, the film's producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Record details

OCLC: ocn922283851
ISBN: 0253018374
ISBN: 9780253018373
ISBN: 9780253018441
ISBN: 9780253018441
ISBN: 0253018447
ISBN: 0253018501
ISBN: 9780253018502
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Published: Bloomington :Indiana University Press,2015.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography:

Includes filmography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.