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...Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters...
While the race movie movement was dead as a systematic and continuous source of Black cinema, occasional isolated independent films would attack the social constructs so easily skated over by the integrated-but-trite Hollywood fodder. Cinema V put out "Nothing But a Man" (1963), starring Ivan Dixon (of Hongan's Heroes fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned...
...period from the beginning of race movies through the era of Poitier and Belafonte are the subject of A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
...CINEMA: Can You Keep a Secret...
...CINEMA A woman triumphs through grit in Passion Fish...