Screenplays of the African American Experience

by Phyllis Rauch Klotman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253206336
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	06/22/1991
Series:	Blacks in the Diaspora
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary African American Filmakers and Echoes of the Past
A Note on the Film Scripts

Bill Gunn
Biographical Sketch
Introduction

Ganja and Hess
Cast and Production Credits

Charles Burnett
Biographical sketch
Introduction

Killer of Sheep
Cast and Production Credits

Kathleen Collins
Biographical Sketch
Introduction

Losing Ground
Cast and Production Credits

Julie Dash
Biographical Sketch
Introduction

Illusions
Cast and Production Credits

Alile Sharon Larkin
Biographical Sketch
Introduction

A Different Image
Cast and Production Credits

Charles Lane
Biographical Sketch
Introduction

Sidewalk Stories
Cast and Production Credits