Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation

by Christopher Sieving

An engrossing look at black-themed films in pre-blaxploitation Hollywood

The sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching examines a subject that, despite its significance to African American film history, has gone largely unexplored until now. By revisiting films produced between the march on Washington in 1963 and the dawn of the "blaxploitation"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571334
• ISBN13: 9780819571335
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher