Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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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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African Cinema in a Global Age
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called...
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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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In a Pryor Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy No, w...
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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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Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistent...
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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up...
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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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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 to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing...
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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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Lumumba in the Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $79.00 - Original price $79.00Original price $79.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has ...
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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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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America "Blending race-s...
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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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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film hi...
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All Kinds of Scary: Diversity in Contemporary Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Horror fictions display a wealth of potential, and appeal to a variety of diverse audiences. However, the trope of "the black man always dies firs...
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