title: Black Film As a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition
author: Gladstone L. Yearwood
description: In <i>Black Film as a Signifying Practice,</i> Galdstone Yearwood explores cinema as part of the black cultural tradition. he argues that black film criticism is best understood as a 20th century development in the history of African-American aesthetic thought, which provides a substantive and accumulative aesthetic and critical tradition for black film studies. The book examines the way black filmmakers use expressive forms and systems of signification that reflect the cultural and historica priorities of the black experience. It delineates howthe African-American expressive tradition utilizes its own vernacular space and time for story telling in the cinema and how black film narration draws on the formal structures of black experience to organize story material.
zlib_text: African American Women and 
  Sexuality in the Cinema
  
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  African American
  Women and 
  Sexuality in the
  Cinema
  NORMA MANATU
  foreword by Kwyn Bader
  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
  Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
  
  Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
  Manatu, Norma.
  African American women and sexuality in the cinema / 
  Norma Manatu; foreword by Kwyn Bader.
  p.
  cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-7864-¡43¡-6 (softcover binding : 50# alkaline paper)
  ¡. African American women in motion pictures.
  I. Title.
  PN¡995.9.N4M28
  2003
  79¡.43'652042'08996073—dc2¡
  20020¡542¡
  British Library cataloguing data are available
  ©2003 Norma Manatu. All rights reserved
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form 
  or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying 
  or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
  without permission in writing from the publisher.
  Cover photograph: N’B