| Screenplays of the African-American Experience Contributor(s): Klotman, Phyllis Rauch (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253206332 ISBN-13: 9780253206336 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1991 Annotation: Screenplays of the African American Experience is the first such collection published. Each screenplay is introduced by the editor, who also provides a biographical sketch of each of the filmmakers and a list of the cast and production credits for each script. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 90043511 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.02" W x 9.26" (0.95 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection by screenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voice which has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotman introduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of the filmmaker, and lists the casts and production credits for each film: Ganja and Hess, Killer of Sheep, Losing Ground, Illusions, A Different Image, and Sidewalk Stories. |