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Title Film blackness : American cinema and the idea of black film / Michael Boyce Gillespie.
Author Gillespie, Michael Boyce, 1969- author.
Publisher Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 11  Theatre K500.N4 GIL  

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Description xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN 9780822362265 paperback : alkaline paper
9780822362050 hardcover : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: We insist: the idea of black film -- Reckless eyeballing: Coonskin and the racial grotesque -- Smiling faces: Chameleon street and Black performativity -- Voices inside (everything is everything): Deep cover and modalities of noir blackness -- Black maybe: edicine for melancholy, place, and quiet becoming -- Coda: Destination out.
Library Class Theatre K500.N4
Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion picture industry -- United States.

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