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Cinema Studies Research Guide:

Race and Representation:
Cinemas of the Black Diaspora

(See also: African Cinema)

Research Resources

Finding Books on Race and Representation
Bibliography of Print Material in U of T Libraries
Finding Journal Articles
Film Reference Library (Cinematheque Ontario)
Media Commons (University of Toronto)
Online Resources

Finding Books on Race and Representation

Books on any of the course-related topics listed below can be found by entering the appropriate LC Subject Heading in the University of Toronto Library Catalogue (UTCat), then choosing the subject search option. Use a subject search also to find material on individual directors, e.g. Sembene, Ousmane (last name, first name) and films, e.g. Colline Oubliée (do not use articles).

• Arts, Black Great Britain
• African American men in motion pictures
• African American men Race identity
• African American motion picture producers and directors
• African American women in motion pictures
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans in mass media
• African Americans in motion pictures
• African Americans in popular culture
• African Americans in the motion picture industry
• African Americans Race identity
• asian americans in motion pictures
• asians in motion pictures
• Blacks in motion pictures
• Blacks in the motion picture industry
• Blacks Great Britain Race identity
• Blacks Race identity
• China foreign public opinion american
• Culture conflict
• Developing countries In motion pictures
• Documentary films
• Ethnicity in motion pictures
• Exoticism in motion pictures
• Feminism and motion pictures Africa
• Intercultural communication in motion pictures
• Mass media and race relations
• Minorities in motion pictures
• Minority women in motion pictures
• Motion picture industry Developing countries
• motion pictures asia
• Motion pictures Africa
• Moton pictures Developing countries
• Motion pictures in ethnology
• Motion pictures Political aspects Africa
• Motion pictures Social aspects
• Popular culture United States Psychological aspects
• Race relations in motion pictures
• Racism in mass media
• Racism in motion pictures
• Racism in popular culture
• Stereotype (Psychology) in mass media
• United States Race relations Psychological aspects
• Visual anthropology
• White women Race identity United States.
• Whites Race identity

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Bibliography

The following is a list of course-related reference material only, available at libraries on the St George campus. For the substantial U of T Library holdings of books on the theory, analysis, and criticism of the topic, see the subject headings in the section above. Check UTCat for status:

• Back, Les and John Solomos, eds. Theories of race and racism: a reader.
  HT 1521 .T473 2000 INNC, NEWC, ROBA
  
• Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American films and television: an encyclopedia.
  PN 1995.9 .N4B58 1988 ROBA, VUPR
  Provides profiles of actors as well as information about movies and television series. See also section on film and television (pp. 51-117) in Images of Blacks in American Culture NX 652 .A37I43 1988 ROBA, and vol. 2, pp. 960-970 in the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History E 185 .E54 1996X GENR.
  
• Bourne, Stephen. Black in the British frame: Black people in British film and television, 1896-1996.
  PN 1995.9 .N4B68 1998X ROBA
  
• Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora: decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity.
  PN 1998.2 .F672 1997 NEWC, INNC, ROBA
  
• Gevinson, Alan, ed. Within our gates: ethnicity in American feature films, 1911-1960.
  PN 1995.9 .M56W58 1997X GENR
  
• Gray, John. Blacks in Film and Television: a Pan-African bibliography of films, filmmakers, and performers.
  Z 5784 .M9G72 1990 ROBA
  
• Hamilton, Marsha J. and Eleanor S. Block. Projecting ethnicity and race: an annotated bibliography of studies on imagery in American film
  Z5784 .M9 H34 2003X ROBA
  
• Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia.
  E 185.86 .B542 1993 GENR, NEWC, OISE/WERC
  
• Hyatt, Marshall. The Afro-American cinematic experience: an annotated bibliography and filmography.
  PN 1995.9 .N4H9 1983 ROBA
  
• International dictionary of films and filmmakers. 3rd ed.
  PN 1997.8 .I6 1997X GENR
  PN 1997.8 .I58 1997 VUPR
  Presented in four volumes dedicated (in order) to: Films; Directors; Actors and Actresses; and Writers and Production Artists, this work offers encyclopedic and bibliographic information about selected members of the aforementioned professions. International in scope, and therefore remarkable, the Films volume, contains 680 entries with production information; a list of cast and crew; a bibliography on the film, and an essay by a specialist in that area.
  
• Klotman, Phyllis Rauch. Frame by Frame: a Black filmography.
  PN 1995.9 .N4K57 1979 INNR, ROBA, VUPR
  
• ---, and Gloria J. Gibson. Frame by Frame II: a filmography of the African American image.
  PN 1995.9 .N4K58 1997 INNR, ROBA, VUPR
  In addition to an alphabetical listing of films by and about Blacks in the United States, these two volumes contain indexes on performers, writers, directors, and producers. Not a critical filmography, Frame by Frame attempts to be a totality of known films having in some aspect relevance to African Americans.
  
• ---, and Janet K. Cutler, eds. Struggles for representation: African-American documentary film and video.
  PN 1995.9 .N4S77 1999 INNC, ROBA
  
• Moon, Spencer. Reel black talk: a sourcebook of 50 American filmmakers.
  PN 1998.2 .M66 1997 ROBA, VUPR
  
• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed. The Oxford history of world cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .A1O96 1996 ROBA, INNR, VUPR, TRIN
  Written by an international team of noted film historians, this work covers all aspects of the history of film - "its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact...". Divided chronologically into three parts: the Silent Cinema, the Sound Cinema, and the Modern Cinema. Coverage of national cinemas extends to all the major cinemas of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. Essays focus on institutional factors as well as individual films and filmmakers. Includes a bibliography and detailed index.
  
• Ogle, Patrick. The Facets African-American video guide.
  PN 1995.9 .N4O44 AVL
  Contains brief descriptions of "films which contain a substantial number of African-American artists". Includes indexes by director, major performers, and title.
  
• Richards, Larry. African American films through 1959: a comprehensive, illustrated filmography.
  PN 1995.9 .N4R54 1998 ROBA, VUPR
  
• Salzman, Jack et al., eds. Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. 5 vols.
  E 185 .E54 1996X GENR
  
• Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in black and white: a source book on Black films. 2nd ed.
  PN 1995.9 .N4S2 1995 ROBA, VUPR
  Documents "the all-Black cast films that were independently produced in the United States between 1910 and 1950."
  
• Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Images of Blacks in American culture: a reference guide to information sources.
  NX 652 .A37I43 1988 ROBA
  
• Woll, Allen L. and Randall M. Miller. Ethnic and racial images in American film and television: historical essays and bibliography.
  Z 5784 M9W65 1987 ROBA
  

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Other Resources

Check UTCat for the availability of the books in the following bibliographies from the Media Resources Center, University of California-Berkeley, Library:

• Bibliographies concerning the movies, race, ethnicity, and gender Links to separate bibliographies and video/filmographies on the following groups: African-Americans, Arabs, Asians, Latinos/Chicanos, Jews, Indigenous Peoples, Italian-Americans, Women, Gay/Lesbian/Transgendered People, Immigrants and Outsiders within Europe.
• African American Filmmakers, African American Films: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
• Documentary and Ethnographic Film: A Short Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Library
• The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity: African Americans (Filmography)

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