Black Film as Genre
Cripps delineates the elements of black film genre in a brilliant essay, and then analyzes six films and their position in the genre. The Scar of Shame, a silent classic, is a social drama which expresses black economic aspiration. The St. Louis Blues uses the black musical idiom to express dramatic...
Format: | eBook |
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Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
1978
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