An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema, and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.

And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava Duvernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others. He considers the films themselves-including Imitation of Life, Gone With the Wind, Porgy & Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the 70s, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther.

Simpson trial to the Black Lives Matter movement. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X to the O.J. Wil Haygood Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World Hardcover Deckle Edge, Octoby Wil Haygood (Author) 77 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 20.99 46 Used from 2.46 26 New from 14.60 3 Collectible from 37. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster-Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, onscreen and behind the scenes. The author of The Butler and Showdown 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 and the civil rights movement in America.īeginning in 1915 with D.W.

Colorization by Wil Haygood