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Hollywood Black - The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers (Hardcover)
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Hollywood Black - The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers (Hardcover)
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The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood
Black, a sweeping overview of black people in film from the silent
era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing
history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in
the silent film era, when white actors in blackface played black
characters and D. W. Griffith premiered his shocking, controversial
The Birth of a Nation. Sound motion pictures were ushered in by Al
Jolson in blackface in The Jazz Singer, but in this new era of
filmmaking, black performers such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and
Paul Robeson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than
not, they were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some
gifted performers were able to turn in significant performances,
notably Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939). In the coming
decades, more black talents would light up the screen. Dorothy
Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress
Oscar nomination for Carmen Jones (1954), and Sidney Poitier broke
ground in films like 1963's Lilies of the Field, for which he won
the Best Actor Oscar. Hollywood Black reveals the changes in images
that came about with the evolving social and political atmosphere
of the country, from the Civil Rights era to the Black Power
movement. The story takes readers through the Blaxploitation era
with movies like Shaftand Super Fly, to the emergence of such stars
as Diana Ross and Eddie Murphy, and of directors Spike Lee and John
Singleton. The history comes to modern times with filmmakers Steve
McQueen (Twelve Years a Slave) and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight);
megastars Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Halle Berry; and a
glorious gallery of others. Filled with photographs and stories of
stars and filmmakers on set and off, Hollywood Black tells an
enthralling, underappreciated history as it's never before been
told.
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