BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Beyond Blaxploitation
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movemen...
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent...
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notion...
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Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting...
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Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African pu...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articula
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 3: The Documentary Record--Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781009282147 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 09-14-2023 Pages: 75 Product Di...
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And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the le...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...
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It's Always Loud in the Balcony: A Life in Black Theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he ...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative r...
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The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D.W. Griffith, a technically brilliant filmmaker, inc...
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The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair o...
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Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.50 - Original price $19.50Original price $19.50$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Arguing that spirituality functions as a life-affirming ideology on Black women's art, Ryan (English, Ohio Wesleyan U.) shows how Black women fil...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...
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Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /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 tur...
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehen...
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Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever. "This musical introduced Black exc...
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee This definitive history is a celebration of the first African-American ballet company, from its 1960s origins in a...
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Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780762481514 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Publication Date: 12-05-2023 Pages: 288
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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" o...
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