Screenplays of the African-American Experience

Book Overview

Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection by screenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voice which has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotman introduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of the filmmaker, and lists the casts and production credits for each film: Ganja and Hess, Killer of Sheep, Losing Ground, Illusions, A Different Image, and Sidewalk Stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253206332
• ISBN13: 9780253206336
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher