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  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall, Marilyn Yaquinto ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and cinematic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics & Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Edited by David C. Wall, Michael T. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    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 turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

    by David C. Wall ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, aesthetics, and criticism, this broad theoretical engagement illustrates the ways in which the registers of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Edited by David C. Wall, Michael T. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    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 turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD