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Black images in American movies

Title
Black images in American movies [videorecording] / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Publication
1987-05-20.

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Additional Authors
  • Bogle, Donald.
  • Murray, James Briggs.
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
6 videocassettes of 6 (U-matic) (107 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
Donald Bogle lectures on black images in American movies focusing on the roles black performers play in Hollywood films. The lecture is based on Mr. Bogle's book entitled "Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films" and is structured around those black stereotypes. Actors and actresses mentioned include Bill Robinson, Sydney Poitier, Ossie Davis, L.B. Jones, Steppin Fetchit, Willie Best, Mantan Moreland, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross, Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson, Jauno Hernandez and Jim Brown. Bogle also mentions the Blaxploitation films and two superstars, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Black films and programs.
  • Instruction.
Note
  • Taped at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.
Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-143a-b
OCLC
21395504
Title
Black images in American movies [videorecording] / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Imprint
1987-05-20.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
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Bogle, Donald. nar
Murray, James Briggs. Production personnel
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual VRB-364 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-143a-b.
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