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A guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera, covering developments in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean, followed by an examination of the African-American film experience. Some 6,000 entries document global film activity from 1919 to 1990, offering historical perspective, bibliographic material, and information on newly emerging talent. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Review
Gray's new work follows his Blacks in Classical Music and his Black Theatre and Performance: a Pan-African Bibliography. As one reads through the introduction, it is evident that Gray has worked diligently in creating this extensive bibliography. The title is misleading, however, in that only the first 99 pages deal with African sources of information. The next 16 pages cover European cinema and the remaining 382 pages of text are concerned strictly with the African-American film experience. The book contains useful artist, subject, and author indexes to the more than 6,000 entries in this bibliography. An appendix provides helpful lists of film resources, archives, and associations. Many of the 977 items included in Marshall Hyatt's The Afro-American Cinematic Experience can be found repeated in Gray's book. If Hyatt is not already in the collection, then Gray is highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate libraries.Choice

Book Description
This is a comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6,000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer historical perspective on the black image in film, bibliographical materials on filmmakers and individual artists, and exciting information on newly emerging talent throughout the world. Gray furnishes valuable supplementary material in two appendixes which list reference works and film resource locations, and separate indexes keyed by artist, title, subject, and author.

About the Author
JOHN GRAY is a cultural historian specializing in Black culture and Director of the Black Arts Research Center, an archival resource center dedicated to documenting the performance traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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This is a comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6,000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer historical perspective on the black image in film, bibliographical materials on filmmakers and individual artists, and exciting information on newly emerging talent throughout the world. Gray furnishes valuable supplementary material in two appendixes which list reference works and film resource locations, and separate indexes keyed by artist, title, subject, and author.

SYNOPSIS

This is a comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6,000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer historical perspective on the black image in film and bibliographical materials on filmmakers and individual artists.

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