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Black Hollywood and Sidney Poitier

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Books

  • Donald Bogle, Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood (NY: One World Ballatine Books, 2005). 365 pp
  • Thomas Cripps, Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era (NY: Oxford University Press, 1993). 294 pp
  • Aram Goudsouzian, Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). 380 pp

Available online via database or on Fronter

  • Gil Noble and Sidney Poitier, “Entertainment, Politics, and The Movie Business: An Interview with Sidney Poitier Cinéaste, 8:3 (1978) 16-23.
  • Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott, “Introduction” in Dickinson, Blair and Ott, eds., Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials” (U of Alabama Press, 2010).
  • “Hattie McDaniel: Centering the Margin,” Chapter 5 in Charlene Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).
  • Presskits for several Poitier Films
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_actors
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees

Films*

*Films can be bought/accessed via Netflix, www.amazon.com, and www.play.com.  They are listed in the order they are needed.

  • Gone with the Wind
  • Lilies of the Field
  • The Defiant Ones
  • A Patch of Blue
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • For Love of Ivy
  • Sweet Sweetback’s Badaasssss Song
  • The Dutchman

Useful Websites for studying filmography

  • www.afi.com
  • www.imdb.com
  • Library of Congress (esp. NAACP files)
  • America: History & Life (database via library)
  • International Performing Arts Index (database via library)
  • Film clips may also be found on www.youtube.com
  • UCLA Special Collection: Stanley Kramer papers

Optional Readings (Useful for Paper and further study)

  • Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Biography (San Francisco:  Harper Collins, 2000).
  • Sidney Poitier, Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (NY: Harper Collins, 2008).
  • Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (NY: Penguin, 2008).
  • Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture.  Washington: NY: Columbia University Press, 2004. 
  • Jim Cullen, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Kenneth J. Bindas, “Re-Remembering a Segregated Past: Race in American Memory,” History & Memory 22:1 (Spr/Summer 2010) 113-134.
  • Charlene Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).
  • Billy Mernit, Writing the Romantic Comedy (NY: Harper Perennial, 2000).
  • Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, 4th edition, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2001).
  • John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, eds., The Oxford Guide to Film Studies.

Optional Films (for Comparison)

  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Roots
  • Monster’s Ball
  • Children of the Dust

 

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