African American Hollywood: , Performers, Films, Filmmakers, from 1903 to the Present

Sunday, June 29, 2008 | 1:30-3:30pm
Anaheim Convention Center 213 C
ALA Annual Conference | Anaheim CA

Donald Bogle
Donald Bogle
     Join the ACRL African American Studies Librarians Section for our 2008 Annual Conference program featuring noted scholar Donald Bogle.

Before Denzel Washington, Halle Barry, Jamie Foxx, and Forest Whitaker, African Americans made significant contributions to the American motion picture industry. Come and explore the historical, social, and political back-story of early Black Hollywood through discussion and photographs.

Bogle is known as "the foremost authority on African Americans in film." He is the author of several books on African Americans and the American film industry including: Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams : The Story of Black Hollywood; Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks : An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films; and Blacks in American Films and Television : An Encyclopedia.

This program is made possible through the co-sponsorship of ProQuest and Oxford University Press, publisher of the African American National Biography.

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Books by Donald Bogle

---. Blacks in American Films and Television : An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub, 1988.
---. Blacks in American Films and Television : An Encyclopedia. 1st Fireside ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
---. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams : The Story of Black Hollywood. 1st ed. New York: One World Ballantine Books, 2005.
---. Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars. New York: Harmony Books, 1980.
---. Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography. New York: Amistad, 1997.
---. Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
---. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks : An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New 3rd ed. New York: Continuum, 1994.

Selected Bibliography

Books

Alexander, George. Why we make Movies : Black Filmmakers Talk about the Magic of Cinema. 1st ed. New York: Harlem Moon, 2003.
Anderson, Lisa M. Mammies no More : The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
Antonio, Sheril D. Contemporary African American Cinema. New York: P. Lang, 2002.
Berry, Torriano, and Venise T. Berry. Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Bowser, Pearl, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle : African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Cripps, Thomas. Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie From World War II to the Civil Rights Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ---. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, 1993.
Dash, Julie. Daughters of the Dust : The Making of an African American Woman's Film. New York: New Press, 1991.
Donalson, Melvin Burke. Black Directors in Hollywood. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
Everett, Anna. Returning the Gaze : A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2001.
Gabbard, Krin. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Gaines, Jane. Fire and Desire : Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
George, Nelson. Blackface : Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies. Expanded ed. New York, N.Y: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
Grant, W. R. Post-Soul Black Cinema: Discontinuities, Innovations, and Breakpoints, 1970-1995. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness : The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
Iverem, Esther. We Gotta have it: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007.
James, Darius. That's Blaxploitation! : Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an all-Whyte Jury). New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.
Jones, G. William. Black Cinema Treasures : Lost and found. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991.
Kendall, Steven D. New Jack Cinema : Hollywood's African American Filmmakers. Silver Spring, MD: J.L. Denser, Inc, 1994.
Kisch, John, and Edward Mapp. A Separate Cinema : Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992.
Klotman, Phyllis Rauch, and Gloria J. Gibson. Frame by Frame II : A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Knight, Arthur. Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2002.
Leonard, David J. Screens Fade to Black : Contemporary African American Cinema. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Mapp, Edward. African Americans and the Oscar : Seven Decades of Struggle and Achievement. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Martinez, Gerald, Diana Martínez, and Andres Chavez. What it is, what it was!: The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures. 1st ed. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
McCluskey, Audrey T. Frame by Frame III : A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
---. Imaging Blackness : Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Null, Gary. Black Hollywood : The Black Performer in Motion Pictures. 1st Carol Pub. Group ed. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1990.
Pramaggiore, Maria. Irish and African American Cinema : Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Reid, Mark. Black Lenses, Black Voices : African American Film Now. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
---. Redefining Black Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Rhines, Jesse Algeron. Black Film, White Money. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Richards, Larry. African American Films through 1959 : A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1998.
Rocchio, Vincent F. Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 2000.
Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films.Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
Sims, Yvonne D. Women of Blaxploitation : How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2006.
Snead, James A., Colin MacCabe, and Cornel West. White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Watts, Jill. Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood. New York: Amistad, 2005.
Willis, Sharon. High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1997.

Articles

Bates, Courtney E. J. "Sweetback's 'Signifyin(g)' Song: Mythmaking in Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24.2 (2007): 171-181.
"Black Actors have A Banner Year at the 2005 Academy Awards." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.47 (2005): 36.
Butters, Gerald R.,Jr. "Hollywood be Thy Name and the New Wave of African American Film Scholarship." Reviews in American History 36.1 (2008): 89-94.
Covey, William. "The Genre Don't Know Where it Came from: African American Neo-Noir since the 1960s." Journal of Film and Video 55.2/3 (2003): 59-73.
Cripps, Thomas. ""Walter's Thing": The NAACP's Hollywood Bureau of 1946-A Cautionary Tale." Journal of Popular Film & Television 33.2 (2005): 116-126.
Dates, Jannette L., and Thomas A. Mascaro. "African Americans in Film and Television." Journal of Popular Film & Television 33.2 (2005): 50-55.
Flory, Dan. "Race, Rationality, and Melodrama: Aesthetic Response and the Case of Oscar Micheaux." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63.4 (2005): 327-338.
Francis, Terri. "Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity." Modern Fiction Studies 51.4 (2005): 824-847.
Gates, Philippa. "Always a Partner in Crime: Black Masculinity in the Hollywood Detective Film." Journal of Popular Film & Television 32.1 (2004): 20-29.
Gilbert, Tiffany. "American Iconoclast: Carmen Jones and the Revolutionary Divadom of Dorothy Dandridge." Women's Studies Quarterly 33.3/4 (2005): 234-250.
Hoerl, Kristen. "Mario Van Peebles's Panther and Popular Memories of the Black Panther Party." Critical Studies in Media Communication 24.3 (2007): 206-227.
Johnson, Michael. "Cowboys, Cooks, and Comics: African American Characters in Westerns of the 1930s." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.3 (2005): 225-235.
McEwan, Paul. "Racist Film: Teaching the Birth of a Nation." Cinema Journal 47.1 (2007): 98-102.
Meckna, Michael. "Louis Armstrong in the Movies, 1931-1969." Popular Music and Society 29.3 (2006): 359-375.
Moos, Dan. "Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian." African American Review 36.3 (2002): 357-382.
Stoddard, Jeremy D., and Alan S. Marcus. "The Burden of Historical Representation: Race, Freedom, and "Educational" Hollywood Film." Film & History 36.1 (2006): 26-36.
Wager, Jans B. "Jazz and Cocktails: Reassessing the White and Black Mix in Film Noir." Literature/Film Quarterly 35.3 (2007): 222-228.
Woodman, Brian J. "Represented in the Margins: Images of African American Soldiers in Vietnam War Combat Films." Journal of Film and Video 53.2/3 (2001): 38-60.

Dissertations

Binggeli, Elizabeth Cara. Hollywood dark matter: Reading race and absence in studio era narrative. Diss. University of Southern California, 2005.
Bowdre, Karen Michelle. Racial mythologies: African American female images and representation from minstrelsy to the studio era. Diss. University of Southern California, 2006.
Dreher, Kwakiutl Lynn. Don't should on me: The Black actress, 1940--1970: Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, and Eartha Kitt. Diss. University of California, Riverside, 2001.
Friedman, Ryan Jay. Negro talking pictures: Race, migration, and musical performance in early sound film from Hollywood. Diss. Northwestern University, 2004.
Gillespie, Michael Boyce. Significations of Blackness: American cinema and the idea of a black film. Diss. New York University, 2007.
Gore, James Renard. Images of leadership in films created by African-Americans and their possible influence on the self-perceptions of African-American adults. Diss. Seattle University, 2001.
Mask, Mia Luise. Divas of the silver screen: Black women in American film, 1950--present. Diss. New York University, 2001.
Monti, Gloria Silvana. This ain't you, girl! Performing race and ethnicity in Hollywood. Diss. Yale University, 2000.
Petty, Miriam J. "Doubtful glory": 1930s Hollywood and the African-American actor as star. Diss. Emory University, 2004.
Pierson, Eric Charles. The 1970's as Hollywood's golden economic age: A critical, interpretive analysis of the blaxploitation cinematic movement. Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
Powell, Gerald Alan, Jr. A rhetoric of symbolic identity: An analysis of Spike Lee's "X" and "Bamboozled". Diss. Howard University, 2003.
Sieving, Christopher J. Soul searching: African-American cinema before blaxploitation, 1963--1970. Diss. The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.
Sims, Yvonne Denise. From mammies to action heroines: Female empowerment in black popular cinema. Diss. Bowling Green State University, 2000.
Spencer, Sharon Zoe. A historical materialist analysis of the visual presentation of the African-American woman in mainstream film, 1896 to 2004. Diss. Howard University, 2005.
Welbon, Yvonne Lynn. Sisters in cinema: Case studies of three first-time achievements made by African American women feature film directors in the 1990s. Diss. Northwestern University, 2001.
White Ndounou, Monica. The color of Hollywood: The cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2007.

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