The politics and poetics of black film : Nothing but a man /
The politics and poetics of black film : Nothing but a man /
edited by David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Nothing but a man and the question of black film / Filmmakers' statements / Essays. Demanding dignity: Nothing but a man / Nothing but a man / The derailed romance in Nothing but a man / Can't stay, can't go: what is history to a cinematic imagination? / Rights, labor, and sexual politics on screen in Nothing but a man / Interviews. Historicity and possibility in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Khalil Muhammad / Cinematic principles and practice at work in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Robert Young / David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin -- Michael Roemer, Robert Young -- Bruce Dick and Mark Vogel -- Thomas Cripps -- Karen Bowdre -- Terri Francis -- Judith E. Smith -- Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall -- Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall.
Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional absence, contemporary audiences were acutely aware of the social context for the film's indictment of white prejudice in America. To help frame and situate the film in the context of black film studies, the book gathers primary and secondary resources, including the original screenplay, essays on the film, statements by the filmmakers, and interviews with Robert M. Young, the film's producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
9780253018502 9780253018441
Nothing but a man (Motion picture)
African Americans in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1997 / .P655 2015 PN1997
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Nothing but a man and the question of black film / Filmmakers' statements / Essays. Demanding dignity: Nothing but a man / Nothing but a man / The derailed romance in Nothing but a man / Can't stay, can't go: what is history to a cinematic imagination? / Rights, labor, and sexual politics on screen in Nothing but a man / Interviews. Historicity and possibility in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Khalil Muhammad / Cinematic principles and practice at work in Nothing but a man: a conversation with Robert Young / David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin -- Michael Roemer, Robert Young -- Bruce Dick and Mark Vogel -- Thomas Cripps -- Karen Bowdre -- Terri Francis -- Judith E. Smith -- Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall -- Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall.
Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional absence, contemporary audiences were acutely aware of the social context for the film's indictment of white prejudice in America. To help frame and situate the film in the context of black film studies, the book gathers primary and secondary resources, including the original screenplay, essays on the film, statements by the filmmakers, and interviews with Robert M. Young, the film's producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
9780253018502 9780253018441
Nothing but a man (Motion picture)
African Americans in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1997 / .P655 2015 PN1997