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Screens Fade to Black - Contemporary African American Cinema (Hardcover)
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Screens Fade to Black - Contemporary African American Cinema (Hardcover)
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The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle
Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to
mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it
was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of
this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses
this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current
state of African-American cinema and the various genres that
currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and
Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop
films--all of which were directed by black artists, and most of
which starred and were written by blacks as well--Leonard examines
the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary
cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between
confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great
deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By
examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial
progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class,
capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while
certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of
years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of
images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism,
as well as the black community's response to it.
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