Framing Blackness by Ed Guerrero
Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg."Ed Guerrero writes broadly and insightfully about the creation and domination of the black image in commercial cinemaThis book is a must-read for anyone wishing to develop an understanding of black films and filmmaking in the U.S."
—Julie Dash
"This well-written and well-argued book offers both an historical survey of representations of blacks in American films and an argument about the relationship between social life and popular culture.... [It] fills an important need within the fields of cinema studies, Afro-American studies, and cultural studies, and will appeal to a broad range of readers."
—George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego
Ed Guerrero, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, lectures and publishes widely on black cinema and has worked on documentary film projects for PBS and Island Records.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781566391269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1566391261 |
| Title | Framing Blackness |
| Author | Ed Guerrero |
| Series | Culture And The Moving Image |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1993-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |