Screenplays of the African-American Experience

Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection byscreenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voicewhich has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotmanintroduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of th

Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection byscreenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voicewhich has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotmanintroduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of the filmmaker, andlists the casts and production credits for each film: Ganja and Hess, Killer ofSheep, Losing Ground, Illusions, A Different Image, and Sidewalk Stories.