[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: African American filmmaking

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature Department at
Cleveland Public Library highlights two recent books on
African American filmmaking.
We are located on the second floor of the Main Library
in downtown Cleveland at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue.
Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog
to reserve any of these titles.
For more information, visit our location, call 216-623-2881,
or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94


Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now.
Mark A. Reid.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
(PN1995.9.N4 R43 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0742526410
(Link includes a summary and table of contents)
"Mark Reid shows how certain films dramatize the contemporary
African American community as a politically and economically
diverse group, vastly different from film representations of the 1960=
s."
-- from the back cover


Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood.
Donald Bogle.
One World Books, 2006.
(PN1995.9.N4 B59 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0345454197
(Link includes an excerpt)
"Through interviews and the personal recollections of film luminaries=
,
noted film historian Donald Bogle reaveals a place both mythic and re=
al,
distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltown -- a world unto =
itself,
with unique rules, institutions, and personalities." -- from the back=
 cover

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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
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