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. Ed(S): Wall, David C.; Martin, Michael T. - The Politics and Poetics of Black Film. Nothing but a Man.  - 9780253018373 - V9780253018373
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The Politics and Poetics of Black Film. Nothing but a Man.

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Description for The Politics and Poetics of Black Film. Nothing but a Man. hardcover. Editor(s): Wall, David C.; Martin, Michael T. Series: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 563.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253018373
SKU
V9780253018373
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About . Ed(S): Wall, David C.; Martin, Michael T.
David C. Wall is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Utah State University. Michael T. Martin is Director of the Black Film Center/Archive and Professor in the Departments of Communication and Culture and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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One of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country.1993
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