Pathfinder: African-Americans in Film

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Scope
This pathfinder lists resources to support study of the role of African Americans in the motion picture industry in the United States.
General Print Sources
Anderson, Lisa M. Mammies No More: the Changing Image of Black Women on Stage & Screen. Call No.: PS338.W6 A53 1997

Blackframes : Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema / [editors, Mbye B. Cham, Claire Andrade-Watkins]. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 B56 1988

Bernardi, Daniel. The Birth of Whiteness: Race & the Emergence of the United States Cinema. 1996. Call No.: PN1995.9.M56 B57 1996

Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women Film and Video Artists. Call No.: PN1998.2 .B57 1998

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks : an Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 B6 1989

Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre .Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 C68 1993

Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black : the Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 C7 1993

Dines, Gail. Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader. Call No.: P96.S452 U64 1995

Graham, Allison. Framing the South: Hollywood, Television and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle. Call No.: PN1995.9.S66 G73 2001

Green, J. Ronald. Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Michaeaux. Call No.: PN1998.3.M494 G74 2000

Jones, G. William. Black Cinema Treasures : Lost and Found / G. William Jones; foreword by Ossie Davis. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 J66 1991

Klotman, Phyllis R. Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 K57 1997

Klotman, Phyllis R. Frame by Frame 2: A Filmography of the African American Image. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 K57 1997 vol.2

Lee, Spike. Uplift the Race : the Construction of School Daze / Spike Lee, with Lisa Jones. Call No. : PN1997.S31353 L4 1988

Moon, Spencer. Reel Black Talk : a Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers / Spencer Moon ; foreword by George Hill. Call No. PN1998.2 .M66 1997 [Reference Collection]

Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Redefining Black Film. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 R45 1993

Representing Blackness : Issues in Film and Video / edited and with an introduction by Valerie Smith. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 R47 1997

Rhines, Jesse Algernon . Black Film, White Money. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 R52 1996

Rocchio, Vincent F. Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 R59 2000

Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Black and White : a Source Book on Black Films. Call No. : PN1995.9.N4 S2 1995 [Reference Collection]

Snead, James A. White Screens - Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 S65 1994

Walker, Alice. The Same River Twice : Honoring the Difficult : a Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film, The Color Purple, Ten Years Later. Call No. : PS3573.A425 Z47 1996

Watkins, S. Craig. Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 W38 1998

Willis, Sharon. High Contrast : Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Call No. : PN1995.9.S47 W56 1997

Subject
Headings
Blacks in motion pictures
Afro-Americans in motion pictures
Actors -- United States -- Biography
Blacks in the motion picture industry
Individual persons: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Ossie Davis. Paul Robeson

Electronic Books

Redefining Black Film by Reid, Mark. Published by University of California Press, 1993
Blackface, White Noise by Rogin, Michael, 1937- Published by University of California Press, 1996
That's Enough, Folks by Sampson, Henry T., 1934- Published by Scarecrow Press, 1998
Gender, Ethnicity And Sexuality In Contemporary American Film by Davies, Jude.
Black African Cinema by Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank. Published by University of California Press, 1994
Framing the South [electronic resource] : Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle. Graham, Allison. 

Bibliographies

Hyatt, Marshall. The Afro-American Cinematic Experience : an Annotated Bibliography & Filmography. Call No.: PN1995.9.N4 H9 1983 [Reference Collection]
Journals
Project Muse - Search
JSTOR - Search
African American Review is available as follows: [12/1/1992 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP, General
American Film is available from 1/1/1988 to 1/1/1992 in ProQuest Research Library with all modules.
Black Filmmaker Magazine
Cinema Journal is available from Fall 1999 to present in Project Muse.
Cineaste is available as follows: [9/1/1992 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP] [1/1/1994 to present in ProQuest Research Library with all modules] [1/1/1997 to present in Wilson Select Plus]
Film Comment is available as follows: [1/1/1994 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP] [1/1/1980 to present in General Reference Center Gold] [1/1/1988 to present in ProQuest Research Library with all modules]
Film Criticism is available as follows: [3/1/1997 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP] [4/1/1995 to present in Wilson Select Plus]
Film History is available from 1/1/1998 to present in ProQuest Research Library with all modules.
Film Quarterly is available as follows: [3/1/1994 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold] [1/1/1998 to present in Wilson Select Plus]

Journal of Film and Video is available from 1/1/1997 to present in ProQuest Research Library with all modules
Journal of Popular Film & Television is available from 1/1/1988 to present in ProQuest Research Library with all modules.
Journal of Popular Film and Television is available as follows: [6/1/1992 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP] [1/1/1995 to present in Wilson Select Plus] [Fall 1998 to present in Lexis-Nexis]
Sight & Sound is available from 1/1/2000 to present in Wilson Select Plus.
Velvet light trap  (0149-1830) from 03/01/1990 to 1 year ago in Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold and InfoTrac OneFile; from 10/01/2002 to 1 year ago in ProQuest Research Library; from 2003 to present in Project Muse
Indexes & Databases
ArticleFirst
Books in Print
ECO - OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online Database--OCLC
Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-
Facts .com
FindArticles.com
InfoTrac OneFile
Lexis-Nexis
MLA International Bibliography
National Newspaper Index, Last 3 years-
NewsBank
ProQuest Direct
WilsonSelectPlus
WorldCat
Internet Resources

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