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Black Art & Design

This guide highlights resources pertaining to Black Art & Design, including items related to Black fashion, design, fine art, film, and photography.

Recommended Books on Film

Black Oscars : from mammy to minny, what the Academy Awards tell us about African Americans

Framing Blackness: the African American image in film

The Black Guy Dies First: Black horror cinema from fodder to Oscar

Women of Blaxploitation: how the black action film heroine changed American popular culture

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: : costuming Black history and the Afrofuture, from Do the right thing to Black Panther

Colorization: one hundred years of Black films in a white world

What it Is, What it Was: the Black film explosion of the '70s in words and pictures

The Ghosts of Songs: the film art of the Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-1998

The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971

Imaging Blackness: race and racial representation in film poster art

Blaxploitation Cinema

Black American Cinema

African American Actresses: the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960

Soul Searching: Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation

Film Blackness: American cinema and the idea of Black film

Migrating to the Movies: cinema and Black urban modernity

Black Film As a Signifying Practice: cinema, narration and the African American aesthetic tradition [SUNY Owned]

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