{"product_id":"trying-to-get-over-african-american-directors-after-blaxploitation-1977-1986-paperback-softback-9781477309087","title":"Trying to Get Over; African American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977-1986 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477309087","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrying to Get Over\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977-1986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKeith Corson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477309087, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e287 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTrying to Get Over\u003c\/i\u003e is required reading for those interested in film at the intersection of racial politics, production histories, and media industries...[Corson] reminds us of the rich and dynamic history of African Americans in Hollywood persistently making films that are now considered cult classics.\u003c\/div\u003e (Media Industries Journal) \u003cdiv\u003eCorson provides depth to our knowledge of black filmmaking during the understudied downturn in the decade following Blaxploitation. Understanding changes in the economic and decision-making forces during this time put both the Blaxploitation era and the 1990s into a new context.\u003c\/div\u003e (Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1972 to 1976, Hollywood made an unprecedented number of films targeted at black audiences. But following this era known as “blaxploitation,” the momentum suddenly reversed for black filmmakers, and a large void separates the end of blaxploitation from the black film explosion that followed the arrival of Spike Lee’s \u003ci\u003eShe's Gotta Have It\u003c\/i\u003e in 1986. Illuminating an overlooked era in African American film history, \u003ci\u003eTrying to Get Over\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in-depth study of black directors working during the decade between 1977 and 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Corson provides a fresh definition of blaxploitation, lays out a concrete reason for its end, and explains the major gap in African American representation during the years that followed. He focuses primarily on the work of eight directors-Michael Schultz, Sidney Poitier, Jamaa Fanaka, Fred Williamson, Gilbert Moses, Stan Lathan, Richard Pryor, and Prince-who were the only black directors making commercially distributed films in the decade following the blaxploitation cycle. Using the careers of each director and the twenty-four films they produced during this time to tell a larger story about Hollywood and the shifting dialogue about race, power, and access, Corson shows how these directors are a key part of the continuum of African American cinema and how they have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz\u003cbr\u003e 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier’\u003cbr\u003es Move Behind the Camera\u003cbr\u003e 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred “\u003cbr\u003ethe Hammer”\u003cbr\u003e Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition\u003cbr\u003e 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan\u003cbr\u003e 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Filmography, 1969–\u003cbr\u003e1994\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589100269848,"sku":"9781477309087","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/trying-to-get-over-african-american-directors-after-blaxploitation-1977-1986-paperback-softback-9781477309087","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}