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Author Corson, Keith, author.

Title Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986 / Keith Corson.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood -- Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz -- Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier's Move Behind the Camera -- Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition -- Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking -- Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan -- Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince.
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Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States.
Motion pictures.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Blaxploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Blaxploitation films.
History.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Corson, Keith. Trying to get over. First edition 9781477309070 (DLC) 2015023681 (OCoLC)913469960
ISBN 9781477309094 (electronic book)
1477309098 (electronic book)
9781477309100 (non-library e-book)
1477309101
9781477309100
9781477309070
1477309071
9781477309087
147730908X
Sudoc No. Z UA380.8 C818tr