Blacks and The Big Screen
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
by:
Donald Bogle
4.22 avg rating — 416 ratings 2. 
Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found
by:
G. William Jones
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 3. 
Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
by:
Miriam J. Petty
4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
by:
Donald Bogle
4.16 avg rating — 153 ratings 
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Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
by:
John Kisch
4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings 9. 
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era
by:
Thomas Cripps
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 10. 
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film
by:
Paula J. Massood
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings 11. 
The to Z of African-American Television (The A to Z Guide Series) (Volume 49) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness (Title Not in Series)
by:
Mark A. Reid
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 14. 
The Colored Cartoon: Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Black Demons: The Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype
by:
Dennis Rome
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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African-American Screen-Writers Now: Conversations With Hollywood's Black Pack 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
by:
Donald Bogle
4.22 avg rating — 416 ratings 
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Slave Cinema: The Crisis of the African-American in Film
by:
André Seewood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 23. 
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
by:
Pearl Bowser
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 25. 
Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now (Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series)
by:
Mark A. Reid
3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 25. 
Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
by:
Valerie Smith
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 30. 
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Spike Lee and the African American Filmmakers: A Choice of Colors
by:
K. Maurice Jones
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 36. 
Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
by:
Yvonne D. Sims
3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 36. 
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
by:
Nicholas Sammond
4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings 38. 
Black Film As a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
by:
George Alexander
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 41. 
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
by:
Julie Dash
4.37 avg rating — 213 ratings 42. 
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women and the Moving Image Since 1970 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The to Z of African American Cinema (The A to Z Guide Series) (Volume 84) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: Expanded Edition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema
by:
David J. Leonard
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 49. 
Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
by:
Christine Acham
3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings 50. 
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
by:
Cara Caddoo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 51. 
Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
by:
Donald Bogle
4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings 53. 
Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
by:
Elizabeth Reich
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer
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Elva Diane Green
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 57. 
Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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