BLKS 288 Black Cinema -- Professor Okada: Library Session, October 26, 2017

Look at these articles and decide which ones are scholarly. 

Group 1

Article 1 "The Returns of Cleopatra Jones," by Jennefer Devere Brody

Article 2 "Blaxploitation: From Shaft to Django" by Robert Repino and Tim Allen

Group 2

Article 1 "Blaxploitation: The Controversial 70s"

Article 2 "The Birth of a Race Company: An Early Stride Toward a Black Cinema," by Thomas Cripps

Group 3

Article 1 "Beyond the Black Macho: Queer Blaxploitation", by Joe Wlodarz

Article 2  "Black Comedy," by Richard Grenier

Group 4

Article 1 "Blaxploitation Movies" by Yvonne Sims

Article 2  "The Birth of a Race Company: An Early Stride Toward a Black Cinema," by Thomas Cripps  

Group 4

Article 1 "Festivals Celebrating Black Films Provide Cinematic Safe Space When it's Sorely Needed," by Ann Hornaday

Article 2 "Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films," by Tamika L. Cary

Group 5

Article 1 "The LA Rebellion: When Black Film-makers Took on the World - and Won," by Ashley Clark

Article 2 "The Returns of Cleopatra Jones," by Jennefer Devere Brody

Group 6

Article 1  "Film & Music: Untold Stories of the LA Rebellion," by John Patterson

Article 2 "The Birth of a Race Company: An Early Stride Toward a Black Cinema," by Thomas Cripps

Group 7

Article 1 "Beyond the Black Macho: Queer Blaxploitation", by Joe Wlodarz

Article 2 "Films Disappoint Director Spike Lee; Hollywood Images Still Limited, Filmmaker Says at Expo," by Alliniece T. Andino

"Picturizing Race: Hollywood's Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through Imitation of Life"

Open Google Scholar in a new window. Copy and paste the name of these articles into Google Scholar. When the article listing appears, look for the words, "Cited by..." and click on it. This is a list of other articles that cite the first one, some of which may be on the same topic.

1. "Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?"

2. "Blaxploitation and the Misrepresentation of Liberation"

3. "Recontextualizing the historical reception of blaxploitation: Articulations of class, black nationalism, and anxiety in the genre's advertisements"

4. "Walking the Streets: Black Gangsters and the “Abandoned City” in the 1970s Blaxploitation Cycle"

5. "Superflies into superkillers: Black masculinity in film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism"

BH  221 .U5 A47  The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Traditions

E 185.86  .B532   Black Popular Culture

E 185.86  .B533   The Black Public Sphere: A Public Culture Book

E 185.86  .V34   Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980

HC  110  .C6 W44    Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century

P  94.5  .A372  U574  Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media

PN 1993.5 .A35 G72   Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers

PN   1997  .D313343 D3  Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film

PN 1995.9  .N4  B53  Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues in Independent Black Filmmaking

PN  1995.9 .N4 C68    Black Film as Genre

PN 1995.9  .N4 N6 1948  The Negro in Films

PN 1998.2 .F672  Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity

PS 153  .N5 T465   Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and bBues Influences in African American Literature and Film

Use this GoogleDoc to record what you find during class.

Common searching errors:

#1 Getting the search logic wrong -- confusing "and" and "or"

#2 Adding extraneous words

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