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OverviewThe sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching examines a subject that, despite its significance to African American film history, has gone largely unexplored until now. By revisiting films produced between the march on Washington in 1963 and the dawn of the blaxploitation movie cycle in 1970, Christopher Sieving reveals how race relations influenced black-themed cinema before it was recognized as commercially viable by the major studios. The films that are central to this book--Gone Are the Days (1963), The Cool World (1964), The Confessions of Nat Turner (never produced), Uptight (1968), and The Landlord (1970)--are all ripe for reevaluation and newfound appreciation. Soul Searching is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and cultural movements of the 1960s, cinematic trends like blaxploitation and the American indie film explosion, or black experience and its many facets. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher SievingPublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: Wesleyan University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780819571328ISBN 10: 0819571326 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 15 April 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsThis remarkable book--well written, accessible, impeccably researched--is perhaps the most important study of African American film history to emerge in the past decade. ... The fluidity of the narrative--Sieving is a master of language--ensures this book's place as the best of film history and theory available. A magnificent contribution to the (existing) literature. Essential. --G.R. Butters Jr., Choice Film historians and pop-culture enthusiasts alike have largely painted Blaxploitation as a spontaneous movement that arose in the wake of black-power politics to feed the cash-strapped studios' appetite for cheap program pictures, and as the genesis that would inspire later African-American auteurs...and pave the way for more recent inroads African-Americans have made in the industry. Soul Searching shatters that mythology by showing the black films of the 1960s, while few and fragmented, represented the first serious attempts to produce credible, progressive films about African-American life. --Steve Ryfle, Cineaste Author InformationCHRISTOPHER SIEVING is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. His articles have appeared in various journals, including The Velvet Light Trap and Screening Noir. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |