"Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films" Donald Bogle (Continuum, 1999)

This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the relationship between African Americans and Hollywood. He notes the remarkable shifts that have come about in the new millennium when such filmmakers as Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Ava DuVernay (Selma) examined America's turbulent racial history and the particular dilemma of black actresses in Hollywood, including Halle Berry, Lupita Nyong'o, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Hudson, and Viola Davis. Bogle also looks at the ongoing careers of such stars as Denzel Washington and Will Smith and such directors as Spike Lee and John Singleton, observing that questions of diversity in the film industry continue.From The Birth of a Nation, the 1934 Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, and Carmen Jones to Shaft, Do the Right Thing, and Boyz N the Hood to Training Day, Dreamgirls, The Help, Django Unchained, and Straight Outta Compton, Donald Bogle compellingly reveals the way in which the images of blacks in American movies have significantly changed-and also the shocking way in which those images have often remained the same.

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Title: "Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks:
an interpretive history of Blacks in American films"

Author: Donald Bogle

Publisher: Continuum - New York

Year: 3rd edition 1999 (1st edition 1973)

Number of pages: 

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Table of Contents

Illustrations

xi (3)

Preface to the New Third Edition xiv (3)

Preface to the Expanded Edition xvii (3)

Preface to the First Edition xx

1 Black Beginnings: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation

The Tom

The Coon

The Tragic Mulatto

The Mammy

The Brutal Black Buck and The Birth of a Nation

2 Into the 1920s: the Jesters

3 The 1930s: the Servants

High-Steppin' Sir Stepin

Waiting on West and Serving Shirley

Mr. Bojangles: the Cool-Eyed Tom

Clarence Muse: The Inhibited, Humanized Tom Standing in a Corner by Himself

Imitation of Life: Mother Knows Best

Iridescent Fredi: Black Girl in Search of a Black Role

Louise Beavers: the Black Guardian Angel

The Green Pastures

Rex Ingram: First of the Freed Black Men

Stepin's Step-Chillun

Rochester: The Gentleman's Gentleman

Hi-Hat Hattie

Gone with the Wind: Black Realities and the End of a Tradition

Paul Robeson: the Black Colossus

4 The Interlude: Black-Market Cinema

Oscar Micheaux

5 The 1940s: the Entertainers, the New Negroes, and the Problem People

THE ENTERTAINERS

Hazel Scott: Miss Proper Middle-Class Lady

Lena Horne: Black Beauty in Residence

Cabin in the Sky

Stormy Weather

Bits and Pieces of Black Action

Song of the South

THE NEW NEGROES: AN INTERIM

THE PROBLEM PEOPLE

Home of the Brave and the Postwar Good Sensitive Negro

Lost Boundaries' Tragic Mulattoes

Pinky's Tragic Mulatto and Its Strong Black Woman

Intruder in the Dust and the Defiantly Proud Black Man

6 The 1950s: Black Stars

Ethel Waters: Earth Mother for an Alienated Age

Dorothy Dandridge: Apotheosis of the Mulatto

Sidney Poitier: Hero for an Integrationist Age

Black Odds and Ends

7 The 1960s: Problem People into Militants

Steps Forward

Black Art Films

A Step Backward: Ossie Davis and Gone Are the Days

Along the Road, in Harlem, and on the Subway

Way Down in de New Ole South with Tom-Tom, Miss Bronze Barbie Doll, and Ms. Militant Mammy

A Man Called Adam and the Son of Sunshine Sammy

Super Sidney of the 1960s

Jim Brown: Black Buck Hero for a Separatist Age

The New-Style Black Film

8 The 1970s: Bucks and a Black Movie Boom

Preludes

Melvin Van Peebles: The Black Movie Director as Folk Hero

Shaft: He's a Badd Mother--Shut Your Mouth

Super Fly: Mixed Messages

Buckmania

The Jock as Movie Star

Lady Sings the Blues: Black Stars, Black Romance

Sounder

Sidney Strikes Again

Superbadd, Supermama

Sisters in Distress

Other Films, Other Voices

Richard Pryor: The Crazy Nigger as Conquering Hero

The Wiz

9 The 1980s: Black Superstars and the Era of Tan

Holding Up the Fort

Dramatic Possibilities

Buddy Buddy

Richard Pryor, Superstar: The Ups and Downs

Trading Places: Eddie Murphy

A Soldier's Story

Say It with Music

Different Directions

Women: As Exotics and Non-racials

A Controversy about Color

Whipping Whoopi

Independents

Hollywood and the Race Theme

Burning History: The White Man's Burden

The Bird Doesn't Fly

Focusing on Apartheid

Bringing History to Light: Glory

Denzel Washington: On the Road to Stardom

Driving Miss Daisy: The Matter of Perspective

Morgan Freeman: The Long Journey to Get There

Other Films

Sidney Returns

Closing the Era on the Right Note

10 The 1990s: New Stars, New Filmmakers, and a New African American Cinema

The Good, the Bad, the Bonded, the Typed

Whoopi's Back and a Ghost's Got Her

An Emerging New African American Cinema

Charles Burnett: A New Career Direction

A Breakthrough Year

New Jack Movies

A Black New Wave

John Singleton's South Central

Rising from the Dust

A Trio by Spike

Other New Directors and Films

Actresses in Search of Roles

The New Actors

Eddie Murphy: All Grown Up, Looking for a Place to Go

Laurence Fishburne: From Child Actor to Leading Man

Wesley Snipes: Action Hero

Denzel Washington: Leading Man, Romantic Hero, Superstar

Index

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