He considers the films themselves-including Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, Porgy and Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the seventies, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation-which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood’s first blockbuster-Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museumīeginning in 1915 with D.OSU Knowlton School of Architecture publications.
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