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Completely updated to include the entire twentieth century, this new fourth edition covers all the latest directors, stars, and films including Summer of Sam, Jackie Brown, The Best Man, and The Hurricane. From The Birth of a Nation--the groundbreaking work of independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux--and Gone with the Wind to the latest work by Spike Lee, John Singleton, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry and Will Smith, Donald Bogle reveals the ways in which the depiction of blacks in American movies has changed--and the shocking ways in which it has remained the same.

Illustrations
Preface to the New Expanded Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Black Beginnings: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation	p. 3
The Tom	p. 4
The Coon	p. 7
The Tragic Mulatto	p. 9
The Mammy	p. 9
The Brutal Black Buck and The Birth of a Nation	p. 10
Into the 1920s: the Jesters	p... MORE. 19
The 1930s: the Servants	p. 35
High-Steppin' Sir Stepin	p. 38
Waiting on West and Serving Shirley	p. 45
Mr. Bojangles: the Cool-Eyed Tom	p. 47
Clarence Muse: The Inhibited, Humanized Tom Standing in a Corner by Himself	p. 53
Imitation of Life: Mother Knows Best	p. 57
Iridescent Fredi: Black Girl in Search of a Black Role	p. 60
Louise Beavers: the Black Guardian Angel	p. 62
The Green Pastures	p. 67
Rex Ingram: First of the Freed Black Men	p. 69
Stepin's Step-Chillun	p. 71
Rochester: The Gentleman's Gentleman	p. 77
Hi-Hat Hattie	p. 82
Gone with the Wind: Black Realities and the End of a Tradition	p. 86
Paul Robeson: the Black Colossus	p. 94
The Interlude: Black-Market Cinema	p. 101
Oscar Micheaux	p. 109
The 1940s: the Entertainers, the New Negroes, and the Problem People	p. 117
The Entertainers	p. 118
Hazel Scott: Miss Proper Middle-Class Lady	p. 122
Lena Horne: Black Beauty in Residence	p. 125
Cabin in the Sky	p. 128
Stormy Weather	p. 131
Bits and Pieces of Black Action	p. 132
Song of the South	p. 135
The New Negroes: An Interim	p. 136
The Problem People	p. 143
Home of the Brave and the Postwar Good Sensitive Negro	p. 144
Lost Boundaries' Tragic Mulattoes	p. 147
Pinky's Tragic Mulatto and Its Strong Black Woman	p. 150
Intruder in the Dust and the Defiantly Proud Black Man	p. 154
The 1950s: Black Stars	p. 159
Ethel Waters: Earth Mother for an Alienated Age	p. 161
Dorothy Dandridge: Apotheosis of the Mulatto	p. 166
Sidney Poitier: Hero for an Integrationist Age	p. 175
Black Odds and Ends	p. 183
The 1960s: Problem People into Militants	p. 194
Steps Forward	p. 196
Black Art Films	p. 200
A Step Backward: Ossie Davis and Gone Are the Days	p. 204
Along the Road, in Harlem, and on the Subway	p. 206
Way Down in de New Ole South with Tom-Tom, Miss Bronze Barbie Doll, and Ms. Militant Mammy	p. 208
A Man Called Adam and the Son of Sunshine Sammy	p. 213
Super Sidney of the 1960s	p. 215
Jim Brown: Black Buck Hero for a Separatist Age	p. 220
The New-Style Black Film	p. 223
The 1970s: Bucks and a Black Movie Boom	p. 231
Preludes	p. 232
Melvin Van Peebles: The Black Movie Director as Folk Hero	p. 234
Shaft: He's a Badd Mother--Shut Your Mouth	p. 238
Super Fly: Mixed Messages	p. 239
Buckmania	p. 241
The Jock as Movie Star	p. 243
Lady Sings the Blues: Black Stars, Black Romance	p. 245
Sounder	p. 246
Sidney Strikes Again	p. 250
Superbadd, Supermama	p. 251
Sisters in Distress	p. 252
Other Films, Other Voices	p. 256
Richard Pryor: The Crazy Nigger as Conquering Hero	p. 259
The Wiz	p. 264
The 1980s: Black Superstars and the Era of Tan	p. 267
Holding Up the Fort	p. 268
Dramatic Possibilities	p. 270
Buddy Buddy	p. 271
Richard Pryor, Superstar: The Ups and Downs	p. 276
Trading Places: Eddie Murphy	p. 281
A Soldier's Story	p. 287
Say It with Music	p. 288
Different Directions	p. 290
Women: As Exotics and Non-racials	p. 291
A Controversy about Color	p. 292
Whipping Whoopi	p. 297
Independents	p. 298
Index	p. 305
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