Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking

(livre en anglais)

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de Barbara Tepa Lupack

Type

Biographies

Sujet

Réalisateur > Richard E. Norman

Mots Clés

Richard E. Norman, réalisateur, questions raciales, cinéma muet

Année d'édition

2013

Editeur

Indiana University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Relié • 336 pages
15,5 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-0-253-01056-8

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Description de l'ouvrage :
In the early 1900s, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From humble beginnings as a roving "home talent" filmmaker, recreating photoplays that starred local citizens, Norman would go on to produce high-quality feature-length race pictures. Together with his better-known contemporaries Oscar Micheaux and Noble and George Johnson, Richard E. Norman helped to define early race filmmaking. Making use of unique archival resources, including Norman's personal and professional correspondence, detailed distribution records, and newly discovered original shooting scripts, this book offers a vibrant portrait of race in early cinema.

À propos de l'auteur :
Barbara Tepa Lupack has written extensively on American literature, film, and culture. She has authored or edited more than 20 books and taught at universities within the United States and abroad.

Revue de Presse :
"Thoroughly researched and crisply written. . . The first book-length work on Norman, Lupack's monograph clearly delineates the Norman Company's importance . . . [Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking's] most profound contribution lies, perhaps, in how it illuminates the fraught economics of race filmmaking . . . ."
-Journal of American History

"Lupack's book provides a wealth of archival information about this vibrant moment in film history . . . . [This] is a solid contribution to regional film studies and race film business practice, and will appeal to scholars, students, and film-buffs alike."
-Black Camera

"Grounded in impressive archival research, Barbara Lupack's book offers a long overdue history of Richard E. Norman and the filmmaking company he established early in the twentieth century. Lupack's ability to describe Norman's films—and the work that went into their production—reanimates them for readers and stresses their role in shaping early African American cinematic representation."
-Paula Massood, author of Making a Promised Land: Harlem in 20th-Century Photography and Film

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