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Soul Searching
Christopher Sieving
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Description for Soul Searching
paperback. An engrossing look at black-themed films in pre-blaxploitation Hollywood Num Pages: 280 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819571335
SKU
V9780819571335
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