Krin Gabbard. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture.(Book review)

From: African American Review | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Krin Gabbard. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UPS, 2004. 299 pp. $62.00.

The recent surge of scholarly interest in African American films has yielded an increasing number of books on the subject, among them Manthia Diawara's Black American Cinema (1993), Sheril D. Antonio's Contemporary African American Cinema (2001), and Paula J. Massood's Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (2003). In contrast to these books, which focus on the presence of African Americans in cinema directed almost exclusively ...

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