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Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man

Contributor(s): Wall, David C (Editor), Martin, Michael T (Editor)

ISBN: 9780253018373

Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Pub Date: October 20, 2015

Dewey: 791.4372

LCCN: 2015017067

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 9.30" L x 6.20" W ( 1.20 lbs) 306 pages

Series: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Young, the film's producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Review Quotes:

"One of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country.1993"--on the film Nothing But a Man

"We thought that the most powerful, useful political statement [in the struggle for civil rights] would be a human one."--Michael Roemer, filmmaker, Nothing But a Man

"The finest comment to date on the Negro revolution in the South, but its primary distinction is that the comment is made through a universal theme, that of a young man's coming to terms with himself and with society.1963"--Judith Crist, on the film Nothing But a Man

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