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African American motion picture producers and directors African American motion picture producers and directors Biography African American photographers African American photographers Biography African Americans Drama African Americans in motion pictures Feminism and motion pictures Jr Byrd, James 1949-1998 Parks, Gordon 1912-2006 United StatesSummary: Inside the Black Box spotlights the world's greatest Black artists within the entertainment industry. A 2022 Television Series. With ten-hour-long episodes with hosts Joe Morton and Tracey Moore. Reminiscent of "Inside the Actor's Studio with Robert Lipton." Features prominent actors, directors, writers, and producers of color and helps to further the never-ending dialectic on race in American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: In his final film as director, Gordon Parks turned the camera upon himself and created a deeply personal and remarkably poetic self-portrait. Moments Without Proper Names blends Parks's striking photographs with newly-shot footage of the artist, his own musical compositions, and personal reminiscences performed by a trio of esteemed actors: Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOMSummary: Melvin van Peebles' remarkable life story reveals an artist and a man whose groundbreaking impact on film, politics and pop culture remains, forty-five years after the release of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, as relevant as ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2016
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Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO