Screenplays of the African-American Experience - Paperback
Screenplays of the African-American Experience - Paperback
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by Phyllis Klotman (Editor)
Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection by screenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voice which has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotman introduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of the filmmaker, and lists the casts and production credits for each film: Ganja and Hess, Killer of Sheep, Losing Ground, Illusions, A Different Image, and Sidewalk Stories.
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Screenplays of the African American Experience is the first such collection published. Each screenplay is introduced by the editor, who also provides a biographical sketch of each of the filmmakers and a list of the cast and production credits for each script.
