Communication Studies
Research Guides
African Americans and Film
Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation
Sieving, Christopher. (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)Available in the ebrary database (Off-campus authentication required)
Hollywood's African American Films : The Transition to Sound
Friedman, Ryan Jay. (Rutgers University Press, 2011)Available in the ebrary database (Off-campus authentication required)
America on film : representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies
Benshoff, Harry M.. (2nd ed, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 B46 2009
Bright boulevards, bold dreams : the story of Black Hollywood
Bogle, Donald. (One World Ballantine Books, 2006)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 B59 2006
Spirituality as ideology in Black women's film and literature
Ryan, Judylyn S.. (University of Virginia Press, 2005)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 R93 2005
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 D66 2003
Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture
Gabbard, Krin. (Rutgers University Press, 2004)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 G33 2004
Rhetoric of symbolic identity : an analysis of Spike Lee's X and Bamboozled
Powell, Gerald A. Jr.. (University Press of America, 2004)PN 1998.3 .L44 P69 2004
African Americans and the Oscar : seven decades of struggle and achievement
Mapp, Edward. (Scarecrow Press, 2003)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 M29 2003
Reversing the lens : ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality through film
Xing, Jun; Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. University Press of Colorado, 2003.McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 X56 2003
Why we make movies : black filmmakers talk about the magic of cinema
Alexander, George. (Harlem Moon, 2003)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 N4 A43 2003
Classic Hollywood, classic whiteness
Bernardi, Daniel (ed.).. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 C59 2001
Waiting to set it off: African American women and the sapphire fixation
Grindstaff, Laura. Reel knockouts : violent women in the movies, McCaughey, Martha; King, Neal (eds.). University of Texas Press, 2001..McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .W6 R454 2001
African American males in dance, music, theater, and film
Green, Robert L.; Carl, Bradley R.. The African American male in American life and thought. Heston, Alan W. (ed.). Sage Periodicals Press, 2000.McNichols Campus Library
H 1 .A4 v.569 May 2000
Black film as a signifying practice : cinema, narration and the African American aesthetic tradition
Yearwood, Gladstone L.. (Africa World Press, 2000)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 Y43 1998
Screening a lynching : the Leo Frank case on film and television
Bernstein, Matthew. (University of Georgia Press, 2009)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .F795 B47 2009
For entertainment purposes only? : an analysis of the struggle to control filmic representations
Chaisson, Reba L.. Lexington Books, 2000.McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 C48 2000
Half past autumn : the life and art of Gordon Parks
MacNeil Lehrer Productions. (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999)McNichols Campus Library
TR 140 .P35 H35 1999
1 VHS cassette (12 minutes).
Summary: "Eighty-five-year-old Gordon Parks discusses his lifelong career in the arts. Best known for his photography, Parks has documented the plight of the poor for Life magazine, as well as photographed the famous and the fashion elite. His other accomplishments include being a film director, poet, author, composer, and digital art pioneer."
Struggles for representation : African American documentary film and video
Klotman, Phyllis R.; Cutler, Janet K. (eds.).. (Indiana University Press, 1999)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 S77 1999
Black women film and video artists
Bobo, Jacqueline (ed.).. (Routledge, 1998)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1998.2 .B57 1998
The mask of art : breaking the aesthetic contract--film and literature
Taylor, Clyde. (Indiana University Press, 1998)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 T38 1998
Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film
Davies, Jude; Smith, Carol R.. (Keele University Press, 1997)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .S45 D38 1997
Representing Blackness : issues in film and video
Smith, Valerie (ed.).. (Rutgers University Press, 1997)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 R47 1997
Same river twice : honoring the difficult
Walker, Alice. (Washington Square Press, 1997)McNichols Campus Library
PS 3573 .A425 Z47 1997
Birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema
Bernardi, Daniel (ed.).. (Rutgers University Press,)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 B57 1996
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 R52 1996
Black women as cultural readers
Bobo, Jacqueline. (Columbia University Press, 1995)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 B57 1995
McNichols Campus Library
E 185.86 .B5418 1995
Midnight ramble : Oscar Micheaux and the story of race movies
Taylor, Clyde. (Shanachie Home Video, 1994)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 M5 1994
1 VHS cassette (58 minutes).
Summary : "Recounts the story of race movies produced for African Americans from the 1920s through 1950, and the role played by Oscar Micheaux, the leading African American producer and director. These movies designed for African Americans, were frequently shown at midnight, and presented African Americans in a positive light. Features interviews with African American actors, actresses, and historians." Originally broadcast as a segment of: The American experience.
Host: David McCollough; narrator: James Avery
Dental School Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 B45 1993
Framing Blackness: the African American image in film
Guerrero, Edward. (Temple University Press, 1993)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 G84 1993
Cinema of apartheid : race and class in South African film
Tomaselli, Keyan G.. (Smyrna/Lake View Press, 1988)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1993.5 .S6 T58 1988
Black images in American films, 1896-1954 : the interplay between civil rights and film culture
Nesteby, James R.. (University Press of America, 1982)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 N4
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 C93b
Slow fade to Black : the Negro in American film, 1900-1942
Cripps, Thomas. (Oxford University Press, 1977)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 C93
Black films and film-makers : a comprehensive anthology from stereotype to superhero
Patterson, Lindsay. (Mead, 1975)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 B5
Reading race : hollywood and the cinema of racial violence
Denzin, Norman K.. (Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2002)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .M56 D46 2002
Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films
Bogle, Donald. (Continuum, 2001)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 B6 2001
Framing the South : Hollywood, television, and race during the Civil Rights struggle
Graham, Allison. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .S66 G73 2001
Not Just race, not just gender : Black feminist readings
Smith, Valerie. (Routledge, 1999)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 S62 1998
Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema
Watkins, S. Craig. (University of Chicago Press, 1998)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 W38 1998
Intimations of invisibility: Black women and contemporary Hollywood cinema
Harris, William A.. Mediated messages and African-American culture : contemporary issues.Berry, Venise T.; Manning-Miller,Carmen L. (eds.). Sage Publications, 1996.McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 M44 1996
White screens, black images : Hollywood from the dark side
Snead, James. (Routledge, 1994)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 S65 1994
Blacks in American films and television : an encyclopedia
Bogle, Donald. (Garland, 1988)McNichols Campus Library
Reference PN 1995.9 .N4 B58 1988
Blacks in black and white : a source book on Black films
Sampson, Henry T.. (Scarecrow, 1977)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 S19
McNichols Campus Library
PS 3552 .A45 Z515
Blacks in American films: today and yesterday
Mapp, Edward. (Scarecrow Press, 1971)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 M3 1972
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