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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Mask, Mia, 1969- author.
Subjects
African Americans in motion pictures.
Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.
African American cowboys in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African American cowboys.
Race in motion pictures.
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Black rodeo : a hist...
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Black rodeo : a history of the African American western / Mia Mask.
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Mask, Mia, 1969- author.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Subjects
African Americans in motion pictures.
Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.
African American cowboys in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African American cowboys.
Race in motion pictures.
ISBN:
9780252086977 (paperback) :
025208697X (paperback)
Description:
xv, 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Contents:
Football Heroes Invade Hollywood -- Black Masculinity on Horseback: From Duel at Diablo to Buck and the Preacher -- Blaxplotation versus Black Liberation: The Nigger Charley trilogy -- Harlem Rides the Range: Nobody Told You There Were Black Cowboys -- Westerns and Westploitation: Brothas and Sistas at the O.K. Corral.
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"African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals. Woody Strode's 1950s transformation from football star to actor was the harbinger of hard-edged western heroes later played by Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. Sidney Poitier's Buck and the Preacher provided a narrative helmed by a groundbreaking African American director and offered unconventionally rich roles for women. Mask moves from these discussions to consider blaxploitation westerns and an analysis of Jeff Kanew's hard-to-find 1972 documentary about an all-Black rodeo. The book addresses how these movies set the stage for modern-day westploitation films like Django Unchained. A first-of-its kind survey, Black Rodeo illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western"--
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