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BL
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636949
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Sieving, Christopher.
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| Title & Author
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Soul searching : : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation /\ Christopher Sieving.
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| Publication Statement
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Middletown, Conn. :: Wesleyan University Press,, c2011.
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Wesleyan film
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x, 265 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780819571328 (alk. paper)
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: 0819571326 (alk. paper)
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: 9780819571335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0819571334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780819571342 (e-book)
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: 0819571342 (e-book)
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| Notes
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Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- The battle of Cleveland: Uptight and the urban Black revolution film -- Black Hollywood meets new Hollywood: The landlord and the racial impasse film of 1970 -- Conclusion: 1960s African American cinema and the birth of blaxploitation.
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| Abstract
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The sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching examines a subject that, despite its significance to African American film history, has gone largely unexplored until now. By revisiting films produced between the march on Washington in 1963 and the dawn of the "blaxploitation" movie cycle in 1970, Christopher Sieving reveals how race relations influenced black-themed cinema before it was recognized as commercially viable by the major studios. The films that are central to this book--Gone Are the Days (1963), The Cool World (1964), The Confessions of Nat Turner (never produced), Uptight (1968), and The Landlord (1970)--are all ripe for reevaluation and newfound appreciation. Soul Searching is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and cultural movements of the 1960s, cinematic trends like blaxploitation and the American "indie film" explosion, or black experience and its many facets.
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African Americans in motion pictures.
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African Americans in the motion picture industry.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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| LC Classification
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PN 1995.9 .N4S54 2011
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