Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
S. Torriano Berry, "Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)".
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press | ISBN: 0810855453 | 2007 edition | PDF | 448 Pages | 7.50 MB
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press | ISBN: 0810855453 | 2007 edition | PDF | 448 Pages | 7.50 MB
The dictionary lists movies with predominantly Negro themes, and also Negro actors. As you might expect, famous movies like "In the Heat of the Night" and stars like Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte are described. The text also gives listings for topics like the late, unlamented "blackface" custom of early vaudeville and movies.Note that as far as Negro-related movies go, there are very few before the late 1960s. Plus, if you look at the actors, few of them rose to prominence before then, in any type of movies. All this of course reflects the pervasive discrimination of earlier times. While the book seems impressively comprehensive, there really aren't that many movies in it, compared to all the films made in the US since the 1910s.