Life After Cooley High And Good Times
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Life After Cooley High And Good Times
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Author : Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-05
Life After Cooley High And Good Times written by Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Poetry categories.
Street Players
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Author : Kinohi Nishikawa
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-01-11
Street Players written by Kinohi Nishikawa and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim’s Pimp to Donald Goines’s Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together—and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp—was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers. Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers’ fears of the feminization of society—and the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass-marketing race to suit the reactionary fantasies of a white audience. But while chauvinism and misogyny remained troubling yet constitutive aspects of this literature, from 1973 onward, Holloway House moved away from publishing sleaze for a white audience to publishing solely for black readers. The standard account of this literary phenomenon is based almost entirely on where this literature ended up: in the hands of black, male, working-class readers. When it closed, Holloway House was synonymous with genre fiction written by black authors for black readers—a field of cultural production that Nishikawa terms the black literary underground. But as Street Players demonstrates, this cultural authenticity had to be created, promoted, and in some cases made up, and there is a story of exploitation at the heart of black pulp fiction’s origins that cannot be ignored.
101 Most Influential Coming Of Age Movies
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Author : Ryan Uytdewilligen
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-01
101 Most Influential Coming Of Age Movies written by Ryan Uytdewilligen and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.
A lifelong movie buff puts his knowledge and passion on paper to show you the best films of his favorite movie genre, Coming of Age. The author highlights some of the finest acting, the most poignant moments, and the funniest gags in movies about growing up, reflecting each decade of American culture since the beginning of film-making, while illustrating the ageless turbulence and confusion of adolescence.
Jet
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-28
Jet written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-28 with categories.
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Hollywood On Lake Michigan
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Author : Michael Corcoran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Hollywood On Lake Michigan written by Michael Corcoran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
Previous edition: Chicago, Ill.: Lake Claremont Press, 1998, by Arnie Bernstein.
The A To Z Of African American Cinema
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Author : S. Torriano Berry
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-09-02
The A To Z Of African American Cinema written by S. Torriano Berry and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-02 with Performing Arts categories.
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries and for the first time in history, there was a black heavyweight champion of the world. At least 10 people lost their lives because of Johnson's victory and hundreds more were injured due to white retaliation and wild celebrations in the streets. Public screenings received instantaneous protests and hundreds of cities barred the film from being shown. Congress even passed a law making it a federal offense to transport moving pictures of prizefights across state lines, and thus the most powerful portrayal of a black man ever recorded on film was made virtually invisible. This is but one of the hundreds of films covered in The A to Z of African American Cinema, which includes everything from The Birth of a Nation to Crash. In addition to the films, brief biographies of African American actors and actresses such as Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Halle Berry, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx can be found in this reference. Through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history.
Challenge
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Challenge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with City planning categories.
The Fresh Prince Project
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Author : Chris Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-01-31
The Fresh Prince Project written by Chris Palmer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A “thorough, thoughtful, and immensely entertaining” (Jemele Hill, author of Uphill) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom—The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—in the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards. More than thirty years have passed since The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on NBC but unlike other family sitcoms of its era, it has remained culturally relevant and beloved by new generations of fans. With fresh eyes on the show in the wake of 2022’s launch of Bel-Air, a Fresh Prince reboot on NBC’s Peacock, The Fresh Prince Project brings us never-before-told stories based on exclusive interviews with the show’s cast, creators, writers, and crew. The Fresh Prince Project is an eye-opening exploration and celebration of a show that not only made Will Smith a household name but helped redefine America’s understandings of race, sex, parenthood, and class.
Hud Challenge
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Hud Challenge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Housing categories.
Scratchin And Survivin
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Author : Adrien Sebro
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Scratchin And Survivin written by Adrien Sebro and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearly all the decade’s notable Black sitcoms were made by a single company, Tandem Productions. Founded by two white men, the successful team behind All in the Family, writer Norman Lear and director Bud Yorkin, Tandem gave unprecedented opportunities to Black actors, writers, and producers to break into the television industry. However, these Black auteurs also struggled to get the economic privileges and creative autonomy regularly granted to their white counterparts. Scratchin’ and Survivin’ discovers surprising parallels between the behind-the-scenes drama at Tandem and the plotlines that aired on their sitcoms, as both real and fictional African Americans devised various strategies for getting their fair share out of systems prone to exploiting their labor. The media scholar Adrien Sebro describes these tactics as a form of “hustle economics,” and he pays special attention to the ways that Black women—including actresses like LaWanda Page, Isabel Sanford, and Esther Rolle—had to hustle for recognition. Exploring Tandem’s complex legacy, including its hit racially mixed sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, he showcases the Black talent whose creative agency and labor resilience helped to transform the television industry.