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Black Film As Genre: Black_Film_As_Genres

Black Film As Genre

Black_Film_As_Genres

Index

Abby, 53

Absent, 41

Adam-12, 58

aesthetique du cool, 10, 12, 50, 95, 99, 120, 140

Alexander, William, 38, 42

Alice Adams, 35

All-American Films, 42

Aloma of the South Seas, 20

Amos 'n' Andy, 57-58

Amsterdam News, 37, 49

anatomy, 11, 65, 72

Anderson, Ivie, 34

Anderson, Madeleine, 55, 103, 148

Angel Levine, 54

Armstrong, Henry, 42, 131

Armstrong, Louis, 45

Arrowsmith, 35

Artists and Models, 34

Asendio, James, 144, 150

Asphalt Jungle, The, 52, 154

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The, 116

"B" movies, 19-20, 34, 41, 90

Baker, Josephine, 38, 40

Baldwin, James, 146, 150

Barbershop Blues, 31

Bargain with Bullets, 41

Barnett, Claude A., 108

Baskette, James, 44

Bataan, 43

Battle of Algiers, The, 50

Beavers, Louise, 35

Beggars of Life, 23

Belafonte, Harry, 48

Ben Hur, 20

Benedict, Ruth, 80

Birth of a Nation, The, 15, 22, 150

Birth of a Race, The, 16-17, 19, 148

Birthright, 28

Black and Tan, 31-32, 78-79

black bourgeoisie, 68, 69, 70-74, 80, 84, 102

Black Delta Religion, 88

Black Jesus, 54

Black Journal, 61

Black King, The, 41

Black Network, The, 31

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen, 66

Black Sherlock Holmes, A, 19

Blackboard Jungle, 46

Blacula, 52

"blaxploitation," 50, 53-54, 56, 115, 128-30, 140, 148, 151

Blinn, Bill, 60

Blood of Jesus, The, 86-99

Blueberry Hill, 57

Body and Soul, 7, 27, 66

Bogle, Donald, 151

Boogie Woogie Dream, 31

Book of Numbers, The, 52, 116, 148

Borden, Stephen, 48

Borderline, 143

Bourne, St. Claire, 55, 87, 90, 101, 103, 148-49

Bowser, Pearl, 150

Broadway Bill, 35

Broken Blossoms, 22

Broken Strings, 131

Bronze Buckaroo, 41, 131

Brooks, Clarence, 35

Brother Martin, 97

Brown, Clarence, 45

Brown, Georg Stanford, 60

Brown, Jim, 48, 130

Brown, Sterling, 144

Browne, Ray B., 149

Browne, Tony, 103

Brute, The, 27

Buchanan, Larry, 48

Bucket of Cream Ale, A, 13

Buell, Jed, 40, 90

Bullets or Ballots, 35

Bus is Coming, The, 54

By Right of Birth, 17-18

Cabin in the Cotton, 35

Cabin in the Sky, 44

Canada, National Film Board of, 55, 102

Capra, Frank, 109

Carmen Jones, 47, 146

Carroll, Vinette, 48

Carter, Ben, 44

Carver, George Washington, 111

Casablanca, 43

Center for Southern Folklore, 88

Chase, Bill, 37

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 66

Chow, Raymond, 54

Christie Comedies, 30, 90

Churchill, Savannah, 57

Clarens, Carlos, 155

Clarke, Shirley, 47, 132, 148, 151

Claudine, 54

Cohen, Octavus Roy, 66

Color Us Black, 55

Colored American Winning His Suit, The, 24

Colored Players Film Co., 4, 65-67

Columbia Pictures, 106, 133, 148

Conjure Woman, The, 28

Connelly, Marc, 35, 109

Connor, Edgar, 81

Conrack, 116-17

Convicts Four, 48

Cool Breeze, 52, 130, 154

Cool World, The, 47, 132

Cooper, Ralph, 38, 41, 131, 154

Cosby, Bill, 59, 132

Cotton Comes to Harlem, 53-54

Count of Monte Cris to, The, 35

County Chairman, The, 35

Crash Dive, 43-44

Cripps, Thomas,149

Crisis, 144

Daily Worker, 146

Danska, Herbert, 55

Dark Manhattan, 41, 154

David Harum, 35

Davis, Ossie, 54, 148, 150

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 48

Day at the Races, A, 34

Days of War, 14

Defiant Ones, The, 46, 49

Democracy, 26

DeMille, Cecil B., 21, 86, 95, 98

DeRochemont, Louis, 102

Dirigible, 35

Dixie National Pictures, 42, 90

Dixon, Ivan, 104, 119, 121, 123, 127

documentary film, 100-102, 108, 114

Double Deal, 41

Dracula, 52

Dreifuss, Arthur, 40-41

Drums o' Voodoo, 41

Dudley, Sherman, 67

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 25, 66

Dutchman, 47, 50, 132, 148

Duvivier, Julien, 44

Dworkin, Martin, 147

Ebony Motion Picture Company, 19, 66

Eckstine, Billy, 80

Eisner, Lotte, 153

Eleven P. M., 66

Ellington, Duke, 32, 77-79

Ellison, Ralph, 115, 146, 150

Emperor Jones, The, 33-34

Empty Sleeve, The, 14

Europe, Jim, 44

Exile, The, 41

Fair Rebel, 14-15

Federal Theatre, 109

Ferris, William R., 88

Fetchit, Stepin, 34-35, 78

Fighting Father Dunne, 87

Fights of Nations, The, 14

film noir, 50, 79, 116, 135

Fish, 20

Five on the Black Hand Side, 54

Flame of Paris, The,40

Flaming Frontier, 20

Flying Down to Rio, 34

For the Cause of the South, 14

Ford, John, 20, 26, 35, 48

Foster, Bill, 75

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 20

Franklin, Oliver, 149

Franklin, Wendell, 48

Free and Equal, 23

Free, White, and 21, 48

From Harlem to the Rhine, 24

From These Roots, 102-103, 111

From Whence Cometh My Help, 129

Fuller, Hoyt, 147

Fury, 36

Gang War, 41, 131

Gant, Harry, 41

Garrison, Harold, 6, 78

Gayle, Addison, 42

genre film, 9-11

Georgia, Georgia, 54

Georgia Rose, 41

Gilpin, Charles, 23, 67

Girl from Chicago, The, 41, 131

Gist, Eloise, 4-5, 87, 90, 97

Glucksman, Emmanuel, 38

Go Down Death, 98

Gold Diggers of 1933, 34

Goldberg, Bert and Jack, 38, 42

Golden Boy, 35

God's Step Children, 42

Gone with the Wind, 35-37, 39

Gordon's War, 104, 130

Greaves, William, 55, 102-103, 111, 149

Green Pastures, The, 35, 92, 96, 109

Greenlee, Sam, 104

Griffith, D. W., 65

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, 50, 132

Haley, Alex, 60

Hallelujah!. 6-7, 30, 77-78, 87, 93, 116, 140, 144, 152

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, 33

Handy, W. C., 33, 76, 81-82

Hansberry, Lorraine, 48, 65

Harder They Come, The, 104

Harlem, 41, 45, 47, 56, 74, 79, 81, 88

Harlem Detective, 58

Harlem Globetrotters, 46

Harlem on the Prairie, 41

Harlem Renaissance, 81, 103

Harlem Rides the Range, 41

Harris, Middleton, 149

Harrison, William, 144

Hearts in Dixie, 6, 30, 78, 116, 144

Hecht, Ben, 109

Heisler, Stuart, 108-109, 113

Hellman, Lillian, 43

Henderson, Harry, 69

Hendrix, Jimi, 105

Henry Brown, Farmer, 45

Hey wood, Donald, 41

Hill, Abe, 113

Himes, Chester, 54

His Darker Self, 22

His Trust, 14

His Trust Fulfilled, 14

Hitchens, Gordon, 88, 90, 101

Hoerle, Arthur, 40

Holiday, Billie, 79

Home of the Brave, 45-46

Homesteader, The, 27

Honky, 54

Hoodlum Priest, The, 87

Hoodoo Ann, 21

Hooray for Love, 35

House Behind the Cedars, The, 28

Huckleberry Finn, 50

Hughes, Langston, 6, 39, 77, 113, 116

Hull, David Stewart, 152

Huston, John, 154

I Spy, 58

I was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 35

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You

Rascal You, 31

Imitation of Life, 35

In Black America, 58

In Old Kentucky, 23

In This Our Life, 43

Informer, The, 54 Ingram, Rex, 35

Injustice, 26

Island in the Sun, 47

Intolerance, 22

Intruder in the Dust, 45, 146

Invisible Man, 115

Jackie Robinson Story, The, 46

Jackson, Jesse, 107

Jammin' the Blues, 45, 79, 105

Jazz on a Summer's Day, 105-106

Jeffries, Herb, 41, 131

Jericho, 40

Jerome, V. J., 146

Jersey, William, 100

Jezebel, 35

Jitterbug Party, 31

Joe Louis Story, The, 46

Johnson, Albert, 146, 150

Johnson, George, 19

Johnson, Hall, 37, 57

Johnson, James P., 77

Johnson, James Weldon, 98

Johnson, Noble, 20, 132, 150

Jones, Leroi, 47, 50-51, 132, 148

Jones, Quincy, 48

Jones, Robert Earl, 48

Jordan, Louis, 42

Judge Priest, 35

Julian, Hubert, 42

Julia, 58

Kael, Pauline, 148

Kahn, Richard C., 90

Kain, Gylan, 55

Kanter, Hal, 58

Keep Punching, 42, 131

King Solomon's Mines, 38 King, Woodie, 54

Kisses for My President, 48

Kracauer, Siegfried, 152

Kramer, Stanley, 46, 48

Kurtz, Wilbur G., 37

Ladies of the Harem, 20

Lady Sings the Blues, 54

Land, Ben, 55

Landau, Ely, 103

Landlord, The, 54

Landy, Eileen, 149

Lang, Fritz, 36

Leab, Daniel J., 151-52

Leacock, Richard, 105

"Leadbelly" (Huddie Ledbetter), 54, 116

Learning Tree, The, 50, 92, 104, 116

Leo the Last, 54

Leopard Woman, The, 20

LeRoy, Mervyn, 36

Let the Church Say Amen, 87, 101

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 156

Levy, Robert, 29, 40, 67

Life Boat, 43

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," 81

Ligouri, Al, 67

Lilies of the Field, The, 46, 48, 129

Lincoln, Abbey, 127

Lincoln Company, 3, 17, 26, 66, 116, 131, 148

Lincoln's Dream, 15

Little Colonel, The, 35

Little Foxes, The, 35

Littlest Rebel, The, 14, 35

Locke, Alain, 144, 150

Long Night, The, 54

Long Ships, The, 48

Lost Boundaries, 45, 102

Lost in the Stars, 148

Lost Man, The, 48-49, 54, 130

Louis, Joe, 42, 110-11, 131

Loyal Hearts, 26

Luciano, Felipe, 55

Lure of a Woman, The, 24

Lutheran Film Associates, 100

McDaniel, Hattie, 35, 37, 57

Macpherson, Kenneth, 143

Mad Miss Manton, The, 35

Maltese Falcon, The, 154

Man Called Peter, A, 87

Man, Woman, and Sin, 23

Manslaughter, 21

Mapp, Edward, 148

March of Time, 45

Marching On, 98

Margulis, Stan, 60

Marrow of Tradition, The, 29

Marshall, William, 58

Martin Luther King: A Filmed Record ..., 103

Massacre, 35

Maurice, Richard D., 66

Maynard, Richard A., 149

Melinda, 130

Men of Color to Arms, 109

Metz, Christian, 156

MGM, 44, 50, 116, 154

Micheaux, Oscar, 3, 7, 26-30, 38, 41-42, 66, 131, 148-51

Milestone, Lewis, 33, 153

Mili, Gjon, 45, 105

Military Drill of the Kikuyu Tribes and Other Native Ceremonies, The, 14

Miller, Dorie, 111

Miller, Flournoy, 42

Million Dollar Pictures, 41, 43

Minnie the Moocher, 31

Mintz, Robert, 41

Miracle in Harlem, 148

Mission to Moscow, 44

Mississippi, 35

Mr. Washington Goes to Town, 42

Mitchell, Margaret, 36

Mod Squad, 58

Monterey Pop, 105

Moon over Harlem, 41

Mordecai, Jimmy, 33, 71, 81-84

Moreland, Mantan, 42, 57

Moses, Lucia Lynn, 68, 71

Mosk, Ed, 80, 106

Moss, Carlton, 45, 55, 75-80, 85, 92, 94, 106-10, 112-13

Moten, Etta, 34

Motion Picture Association of America, 7,132-33

Muhammad, Elijah, 55, 101

Murder on Lennox[sic] Avenue, 41

Murphy, Dudley, 33, 80, 83, 151

Murray, James P., 7, 49, 149-50

Muse, Clarence, 6, 35, 39, 77-78, 116, 131

My Baby is Black, 48

My People, 57

Myrick, Susan, 37

Mystery in Swing, 41

NAACP, 17, 42-43, 48, 57-58, 75, 143, 145

National Film Board of Canada, 55, 102

Native Son, 47, 148

Natural Born Gambler, A, 21

Negro College in Wartime, The, 45

Negro Sailor, The, 45

Negro Soldier, The, 45, 100-14

Nelson, David, 55

New World A'Comin', 57

Night I Fought Jack Johnson, The, 21

Night of the Quarter Moon, The, 48

No Way Out, 46

Norman, Maidie, 48

Nothing But a Man, 7, 49, 117-27, 148

Of Mice and Men, 35

Office of War Information, 57

Old Ironsides, 23

Old Mammy's Charge, 14

Old Mammy's Secret Code, 14

One Exciting Night, 22

One Mile from Heaven, 35

One Potato, Two Potato, 48

Orfeu Negro, 48

Organization, The, 48, 130

Oriental martial arts, 54, 129, 131

Orphans of the Storm, 22

O'Shaughnessy's Boy, 35

Ottley, Roi, 57

Our Gang, 21

Our Hell Fighters Return, 24

Outcasts, The, 58

Owens, Jesse, 111

Ox Bow Incident, The, 43

Parks, Gordon, 50, 92, 104, 116, 149, 154

Parks, Gordon, Jr., 116

Patterson, Lindsay, 149

Peerce, Larry, 48

Pennebaker, D. A., 105

Perugini, Frank, 67

Petrified Forest, The, 35-36

Pie, Pie Blackbird, 31

Pines, Jim, 148

Pinky, 45

Pittsburgh Courier, 37, 143

Poitier, Sidney, 46, 48-49, 130, 147

Pollard, Fritz, 43, 80

Pollard, J. Luther, 66

Popkin, Harry and Leo, 38, 41, 46

Porgy, 23

Porgy and Bess, 47

Potamkin, Harry Allan, 143

Pressure Point, 48

Prestige, 35

Prince of His Race, A, 29, 67

Princess Tarn Tarn, 38

Prisoner of Shark Island, The, 35

Proud Valley, 40

Purlie Victorious, 48, 150

Raisin in the Sun, A, 48, 65

Randol, George, 38, 41

Rasulala, Thalmus, 154

Raucher, Herman, 132

Realization of a Negro's Ambition, The, 17, 66, 116-17, 131

Reddick, Lawrence D., 113, 145, 150

Reivers, The, 52

religion, 87-88, 90

Reol Studio, 40, 67

Resnick, Ken, 88-89, 101

Rhapsody in Black and Blue, 31

Rhone, Trevor, 104

Rhythm in a Riff, 80

Rich Man, Poor Man, 60

Right On!, 55

Rinaldo, Ben, 40

Ritt, Martin, 50

Robeson, Paul, 33, 36, 38, 44, 66, 143_44, 148, 150

Robinson, Smokey, 105

Robinson's Heavenly Choir, 91

Rockefeller Foundation, 88

Roemer, Michael, 7, 49, 148

Romance of a Jewess, The, 65

Roots, 60-61

Rosebud, 41

Roth, Murray, 77

Roundtree, Richard, 50, 154

Sack, Alfred, 38, 98

Sahara, 43

St. Jacques, Raymond, 52, 116

St. Louis Blues, The, 33, 75-85

Sanders of the River, 38

Sargent, William, Jr., 105

Savin, Lee, 105

Savini, Robert, 40

Scapegoat, The, 24

Scar of Shame, The, 5-6, 29, 65-74, 80, 153

Schiff man, Frank, 38

Scott, Emmett J., 15, 147

Sea Beast, The, 23

Selassie, Haile, 44

Selznick, David O., 36-37

Sergeant Rutledge, 48

Sergeants Three, 48

Serling, Rod, 58

sex in film, 84-85, 124, 130, 135-38

Shaft, 50, 80, 129, 154

Shales, Tom, 147

Shaw, Irwin, 60

Shaw, Run Run, 54, 130

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 20

Shore, Sig, 151

Showboat, 35-36

Siren of the Tropics, 38

Slave Ship, 35

Slave's Devotion, A, 14

Sloane, Paul, 78

Smile Orange, 104

Smith, Bessie, 33, 81-85

Smith, J. Augustus, 41

So Red the Rose, 35

Soldier Brothers of Susannah, The, 15

Some White Hope, 21

Son of Ingagi, 90

Song of the South, 44

Soul Soldier, 54

Soul to Soul, 54, 80, 106

Sounder, 50, 52, 104, 116

Sounder II, 117

"soundies," 43, 57, 80

South, the, 48, 58, 77-78, 117

Spider's Web, The, 28

Spirit of Youth, 42, 131

Spook Who Sat by the Door, The, 12, 104-105, 153

Spying the Spy, 19

Staggerlee, 50

Staples Singers, 107

Starkman, David, 67

Steamboat Round the Bend, 35

Steinbeck, John, 35

Stern, Bert, 105-106

Still a Brother, 88, 90, 101-102

Stormy Weather, 44

Story of a Three-Day Pass,50

Stribling, T. S., 66

Strode, Woody, 48

Stuart, Mel, 106

Sullivan, Ed, 57

Sunday on the River, 88, 90, 101

Supremes, The, 105

Sutherland, Edward, 35

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, 7, 52, 128-40

Swerling, Jo, 109

Symbol of the Unconquered, The, 27

Symphony in Black, 31, 77-79

TAMI [Teenage Awards Music International] Show, 105

Tales of Manhattan, 44

Tarzan, 20

television, 55-58, 60-61

Tempo Studio, 67

Ten Minutes to Live, 41

Ten Nights in a Bar Room, 29, 67

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The, 129

They Won't Forget, 36

Thompson, Edward, 35-36

Time for Building, A, 101

Time for Burning, A, 100

To Kill a Mockingbird, 48

Toddy, Ted, 40, 42, 90

Topsy and Eva, 22

Trader Horn, 34

Trooper of Troop K, The, 19, 132

Tubbs, Vincent, 48

Tucker, Earl "Snake Hips," 79

Tudor, Andrew, 152-54, 156

Turner, Ike and Tina, 80, 106

Two Gun Man from Harlem, 41

Two Rode Together, 48

Tyson, Cicely, 117

Ulmer, Edgar, 40-41

Uncle Tom's Cabin, 14, 22-23

Underworld, 41

Up Tight, 148

urban life, 54, 67-71,76-77

Van Peebles, Melvin, 50, 52, 128-40, 151

Van Vechten, Carl, 32

Variety, 3, 22-23, 42, 58, 84

Victory Through Brotherhood, 57

Vidor, King, 6, 77-78, 87-88, 140

Voice of the City, The, 57

Vorhaus, Bernard, 77

Walk in My Shoes, 58

Washington, Booker T., 15, 96, 111

Washington, Fredi, 33, 35, 81

Washington, Isabel, 81

Watermelon Man, 132

Watts Festival, 80, 106

Wattstax, 54, 77, 80, 106-107, 153

Way Down East, 22

Way Down South, 39, 77, 116

Weales, Gerald, 146 Weiss, Louis, 41

Well, The, 46

Welles, Orson, 92

Wellman, William, 43

Werker, Alfred, 102

westerns, black, 90

Westinghouse Broadcasting, 105

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 48

While Thousands Cheer, 43

Whipper, Leigh, 35, 43

White, Josh, 57-58

White, Walter, 42, 75

White Rose, The, 22

Why We Fight, 45, 109

Wiley, Hugh, 66

Williams, Bert, 20

Williams, Oscar, 104

Williams, Spencer, 30, 38, 41, 90-99

Williamson, Fred, 130

Willie Dynamite, 130

Wilson, Dooley, 43

Within Our Gates, 27-28

WLIB, 56

WMCA, 57

WNYC, 57

WOR-TV, 58

Wolper, David, 60

Wright, Richard, 47

Yamacraw, 31, 77, 116

Yglesias, Jose, 146

Young Man with a Horn, 47

Youngdahl, William, 101

Zanuck, Darryl, 47

Zou Zou, 38

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