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african american studies · film studies wtÇv|Çz white page black women entertainers writing autobiography on the dancing on the white page black women entertainers writing autobiography kwakiutl l dreher investigates the literary voices of six black women entertainers and how they negotiated the tensions between the entertainment industries and the black community exile cinema filmmakers at work beyond hollywood michael atkinson editor offers a cross section of international fringe cinema utside the shrinking american film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen geniuses and apostates roam freely subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control in exile cinema prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working thriving international filmmakers from bela tarr to judith helfand from kiyoshi kit and guy maddin to chantal akerman and michele soavi from chris marker to the newest thresholds of contemporary film these filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution naturally the average american moviehead rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay whimsical and deeply subjective the viewpoints and evangelisms in exile cinema will serve as salve for the cineaste s lonesome fury elegant and erudite this is a key volume for twenty-first-century film studies a volume to read again and again with pleasure and wonder wheeler winston dixon michael atkinson is professor of film at the c w post campus of long island university and former staff film critic for the village voice his previous books include flickipedia ghosts in the machine the dark heart of pop cinema blue velvet and a collection of poetry one hundred children waiting for a train a volume in the suny series horizons of cinema murray pomerance editor march · 224 pp $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7378-8 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7377-1 kwakiutl l dreher filmmakers at work be yond holly wood o edited by michael atkinson ancing on the white page examines the popular autobiographies of six well-known black women entertainers diahann carroll dorothy dandridge lena horne eartha kitt whoopi goldberg and mary wilson and makes a case for adding black celebrity autobiography to the african american literary canon as she explores these women s fascinating stories kwakiutl l dreher reveals how each one improvises the choreography of her life to survive and thrive in the film television and music industries as well as the politically charged environment of the black community most specifically represented by the naacp reading each autobiography as a site of self-revelation dreher discovers stories of black self-determination along with the fight for liberation from oppression and racial and gender discrimination she explores each woman s full meaning in american culture at large and in american entertainment culture in particular this engaging book adds an important element to discussions in popular culture about the images of black women so loosely displayed in music videos films television series and commercials dreher contextualizes the salacious details that often overshadow the critical contributions these entertainers have made not only to entertainment but also to the civil rights movements of our time carol e henderson author of scarring the black body race and representation in african american literature kwakiutl l dreher is assistant professor of english and ethnic studies at the university of nebraska at lincoln a volume in the suny series cultural studies in cinema/video wheeler winston dixon editor january · 224 pp $21.95 pb 978-0-7914-7284-2 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7283-5 d contributors geoff andrew national film theatre london uk michael atkinson long island u brookville patricia aufderheide american u godfrey cheshire ny ny joshua clover u of ca davis graham fuller brooklyn ny ed halter bard coll howard hampton apple valley ca b kite brooklyn ny stuart klawans ny ny dennis lim museum for the moving image astoria ny guy maddin winnipeg canada maitland mcdonagh tv guide.com ny ny ed park ny ny mark peranson vancouver int l film centre canada jonathan romney london uk jonathan rosenbaum chicago il laura sinagra brooklyn ny chuck stephens nashville tn david sterritt baltimore md david thompson london uk george toles u of manitoba winnipeg canada jessica winter brooklyn ny 22 1-800-666-2211

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