{"product_id":"book-epbs","title":"Hollywood Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in \u003ci\u003eHollywood Black\u003c\/i\u003e, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not, they were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some gifted performers, most notably Hattie McDaniel in \u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), were able to turn in significant performances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the coming decades, more black talents would light up the screen. Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination for \u003ci\u003eCarmen Jones \u003c\/i\u003e(1954), and Sidney Poitier broke ground in films like \u003ci\u003eThe Defiant Ones\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1963's \u003ci\u003eLilies of the Field\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHollywood Black\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the changes in images that came about with the evolving social and political atmosphere of the US, from the Civil Rights era to the Black Power movement. The story takes readers through \u003ci\u003eBlaxploitation\u003c\/i\u003e, with movies like \u003ci\u003eShaft\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuper Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, to the emergence of such stars as Cicely Tyson, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg, and of directors Spike Lee and John Singleton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The history comes into the new millennium with filmmakers Barry Jenkins (\u003ci\u003eMoonlight\u003c\/i\u003e), Ava Du Vernay (\u003ci\u003eSelma\u003c\/i\u003e),\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand Ryan Coogler (\u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e); megastars such as Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman; as well as Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, and a glorious gallery of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Filled with evocative stories of stars and filmmakers on set and off, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Black\u003c\/i\u003e tells an underappreciated history as it's never before been told.","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49397939241264,"sku":"BDepbs","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/527177-epbs-Square.jpg?v=1735489711","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-epbs","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}