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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
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89/100Critics
65/100Scholars
Author:
Wil Haygood
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
October 19, 2021
Haygood examines 100 years of Black movies using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America.
What The Reviewers Say
... elegant and well-made.
Colorization, a well-constructed and deeply engaging chronicle...breaks significant new ground in that takes in the full sweep of on-screen portrayals of Black Americans (sometimes by Black American filmmakers, sometimes not), spanning years beyond other indispensable accounts.
The stories that Wil Haygood tells—of pioneers, mavericks, rebels—are as gripping as anything that one might hope to see on the big screen.
For anyone who isn’t steeped in film history, Haygood provides a valuable service by recalling the few movies made by White producers and directors in the pre-civil rights era that dealt seriously with race issues.
