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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films » (Subsequent)

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Authors: Donald Bogle
ISBN-13: 9780826412676, ISBN-10: 082641267X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: Subsequent

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Author Biography: Donald Bogle

Book Synopsis

This classic study of black images in American motion pictures has once again been completely revised and updated. It includes new sections on the end of the 1980s plus a chapter devoted to the unequaled rise of the new African American cinema and stars of the 1990s. Donald Bogie reveals the way in which the image of blacks in American movies has changed--and also the shocking way in which it has remained the same.

Table of Contents

Illustration
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
1Black Beginnings: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation3
2Into the 1920s: the Jesters19
3The 1930s: the Servants35
4The Interlude: Black-Market Cinema101
5The 1940s: the Entertainers, the New Negroes, and the Problem People117
6The 1950s: Black Stars159
7The 1960s: Problem People into Militants194
8The 1970s: Bucks and a Black Movie Boom231
9The 1980s: Black Superstars and the Era of Tan267
10The 1990s: New Stars, New Filmmakers, and a New African American Cinema324
Index435

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