L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

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"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--includin...

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Other Authors: Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- (Editor)
Horak, Jan-Christopher (Editor)
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African American motion picture producers and directors > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Independent filmmakers > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Independent films > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Experimental films > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
Experimental films.
Independent filmmakers.
Independent films.
California > Los Angeles.
1900 - 1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface: Once upon a time in the West . . . L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor
  • Introduction: Emancipating the image-the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers /Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
  • Threads and nets: the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans
  • Rebellious unlearning: UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field
  • Tough enough: Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak
  • Anticipations of the rebellion: black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James
  • Re/soundings: music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey
  • Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin
  • Bruising moments: affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard
  • The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
  • Encountering the rebellion: liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo
  • L.A. Rebellion oral histories.