Black women film and video makers have been producing shorts, documentaries and films since the early part of this century. Unfortunately, not only has their work been overlooked by distributors, but critical reviews have been few and far between. Conceived to redress that omission, Black Women Film and Video Artists is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this genre. Gathered here are noted scholars and critics, as well as the film/video makers themselves who offer insight into the work of underexplored artists. The discussions range from pioneering to contemporary film makers and include artists such as Madeline Anderson, Monica Freeman, Jacqueline Shearer, Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, Camille Billops, Zeinabu Irene Davis, and Michelle Parkerson, among others.
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Black Women Film & Video Artists is a long-overdue anthology that documents the underacknowledged, yet significant, accomplishments of women filmmakers, scholars, and film technicians.
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Jacqueline Bobo is Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Black Women as Cultural Readers (1995).
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Comprehensive Volume on Black Women in Film,
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This review is from: Black Women Film and Video Artists (AFI Film Readers) (Paperback)
This book should be required reading for any student of American cinema. All too often, independent filmmakers (particularly women) are ignored in other books. When they are mentioned, the discussion is limited to only one or two people. This is because many of the films are rarely shown outside of film festivals (and occassionally cable). Black women filmmakers did not start with Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE AND BASKETBALL), Kasi Lemmons (EVE'S BAYOU) or even Julie Dash (DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST). In reality, it started long before any of these women were even born. This book tells the story through essays and often through their own words of the struggles of Black women film and video makers. What is also great about this book is the comprehensive video/filmography in the rear of the volume. It includes not only feature films, but numerous shorts as well (including important student projects). Importantly, it also lists the distributors of these films, so that others may discover them. Filmmakers mentioned in the book that have gone on into features include Zeinabu irene Davis (COMPENSATION which screened at Sundance in 2000) and Cauleen Smith (Urbanworld Fest Winner for DRYLONGSO). These and films like them need to be seen by a wider audience. Hopefully, this book will inspire people to seek them out and to encourage this and other women to make more wonderful films.
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Finally! A wonderful book on Black Women Filmmakers.,
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This review is from: Black Women Film and Video Artists (AFI Film Readers) (Paperback)
There has been a large desire to know more about the thoughts, history, and films of Black Women Filmmakers. This anthology edited by Jacqueline Bobo, covers areas from the early pioneers such as Eloyce Gist in the 1920's to the current rung of documentary, animation, and narrative filmmakers in the United States. Some of the filmmakers covered are Jacqueline Shearer, (Eyes on the Prize) Carol Munday Lawrence (Kwanzaa series), and Michelle Parkerson ("...But Then She's Betty Carter", "Gotta Make This Journey:Sweet Honey in the Rock"," A Lithany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde")
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My earliest introduction to the work of Black women makers occurred at several venues-an insightful paper given by Gloria Gibson at the 1989 Society for Cinema Studies Conference and, next, during Zeinabu irene Davis's challenging advocacy at the Twelfth Annual Ohio University Film Conference in 1990. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black women filmmakers, carmen coustaut, jacqueline shearer, salem mekuria, julie dash, angeles school, filmic representation, video artists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, Civil War, Ella Baker, Sweet Honey, Audre Lorde, Charles Burnett, Michelle Parkerson, Say Brother, Nguzo Saba Films, United States, Kathleen Collins, Ntozake Shange, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Martin's Press, Praise House, Carroll Parrott Blue, East Coast, Rodnev King, San Francisco, Ada Gay Griffin, Finding Christa, Langston Hughes, Pearl Bowser, South Africa New!
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My earliest introduction to the work of Black women makers occurred at several venues-an insightful paper given by Gloria Gibson at the 1989 Society for Cinema Studies Conference and, next, during Zeinabu irene Davis's challenging advocacy at the Twelfth Annual Ohio University Film Conference in 1990. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black women filmmakers, carmen coustaut, jacqueline shearer, salem mekuria, julie dash, angeles school, filmic representation, video artists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, Civil War, Ella Baker, Sweet Honey, Audre Lorde, Charles Burnett, Michelle Parkerson, Say Brother, Nguzo Saba Films, United States, Kathleen Collins, Ntozake Shange, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Martin's Press, Praise House, Carroll Parrott Blue, East Coast, Rodnev King, San Francisco, Ada Gay Griffin, Finding Christa, Langston Hughes, Pearl Bowser, South Africa New!
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- Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash on 22 pages
- Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism by Diane Carson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- We Who Believe in Freedom by Bernice Johnson Reagon on page 16, page 19, and Back Matter
- Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange on page 189, and page 205
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- Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by Susan Hayward in Back Matter
- Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics by Marsha Meskimmon in Back Matter
- Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (AFI Film Readers) by Hamid Naficy in Front Matter
- Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Back Matter
- Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Back Matter
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