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  • ISBN 9780786472673
  • Weight: 381g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Nov 2014
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the murder of four black girls by the Ku Klux Klan in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. Such events are integral parts of history that continue to inform America's racial politics. Their exclusion is a problem that this work addresses by bringing more visibility to documentary films focusing on the events.

Books treating the history of documentary films follow a similar pattern, omitting the efforts of filmmakers who have continued to focus on African American history. This book works to make documentary discourse more complete, bringing attention to films that cover the African American experience in four areas--civil rights, sports, electronic media, and the contemporary black struggle--demonstrating how the issues continue to inform America's racial politics.
About
Novotny Lawrence is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Popular Culture. His research primarily centers on African American cinematic and mediated experiences, race, and popular culture. He has authored a book and co-edited an anthology on Blaxploitation Cinema and has also has published journal articles and book chapters on Black Dynamite and parody, African American religious iconography in Good Times, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and the Blaxploitation-themed film, Detroit 9000.