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The Devil Finds Work
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
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Reel to Real
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
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Slow Fade to Black
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Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
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John Kisch (Editor)
4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era
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Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film
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Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation
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Beyond Blaxploitation
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Novotny Lawrence (Contributor)
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The to Z of African-American Television (The A to Z Guide Series)
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Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
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African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness (Title Not in Series)
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Mark A. Reid (Contributor)
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That's Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude
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3.95 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Colored Cartoon: Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954
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Christopher P. Lehman (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Black Demons: The Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype
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Redefining Black Film
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3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film
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African-American Screen-Writers Now: Conversations With Hollywood's Black Pack
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Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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Black Film/White Money
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Jesse Algeron Rhines (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy
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Slave Cinema: The Crisis of the African-American in Film
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Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
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Pearl Bowser (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now (Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series)
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3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television
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Kristal Brent Zook (Goodreads Author)
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Dilemmas: the Tarner Lectures1953
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Manthia Diawara (Editor)
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art
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Black Directors in Hollywood
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Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerilla Filmmaking
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African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Spike Lee: Interviews
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Cynthia Fuchs (Editor)
4.15 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Black Women Film and Video Artists
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Jacqueline Bobo (Editor)
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Spike Lee and the African American Filmmakers: A Choice of Colors
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Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
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Black Film As a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Historical Dictionary of African-American Television
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Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
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George Alexander (Goodreads Author)
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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
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Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women and the Moving Image Since 1970
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The to Z of African American Cinema (The A to Z Guide Series)
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The A to Z of African-American Television
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Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: Expanded Edition
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
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The Spike Lee Reader
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Paula J. Massood (Editor)
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Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema
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Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
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Cara Caddoo (Goodreads Author)
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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
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Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film
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Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer
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Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire
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Donnetrice C. Allison (Editor)
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
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Allyson Field (Editor)
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It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
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This Life by Sidney Poitier has been removed because Mr. Poitier is not African-American.
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Great work! And thank you for being firm on African American specificity.
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