Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences In Film

Index

Index Above the Rim, 143, 181 action film. See genre African cinema, 95 Ahearn, Charlie, 122 Aiello, Danny, 135 Alice, Mary, 212 American International Pictures, 232n. 25 American Pimp, 165,219 "America's Most Wanted," 162, 172 Amistad, 179,216 Amos '~' Auldy,208 Anderson, Eddie, 31, 32 Anderson, Jervis, 68 Anderson, Steve, 181 Angelou, Maya, 3, 211-12, 215, 216 Angola,lI3 antebellum idyll. See chronotope Apollo Theater (Harlem), 61, 67, 85, 90, 129,220 Annstrong, Louis, 37 Associated Features, 71 Adanta (Georgia), 142, 168, 213 . See also migration Auguiste, Reece, 175 Autry, Gene, 70, 72-73 Baby Boy, 176, 210, 220, 255n. 18 "bad niggers," 83, 99, 160, 164-65, 219, 235n. 7 Bailey, Donna, 125 Baker,Josephine, 119 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 4-7, 14, 17,25, 160, 179, 228n. 9, 236n. 18. See also chronotope; dialogism; heteroglossia; polyphony 257 Bale, Christian, 222 Bambara, Toni Cade, 114 Bamboozled, 6, 142, 188,207-9,210,218, 225 BANG (Blacks Against ~arcotics and Genocide), 119 Baraka, Amiri, 88 Barclay, Paris, 181 Bargain With Bullets, 62 Barry, Marion, 119 Bassett, Aulgela, 157 Baudelaire, Charles, 85 b-boy, 128, 135, 136--37, 160, 247n. 56 Beastie Boys, The, 124 Beat Street, 122, 125, 136 Beatty, Warren, 176, 181 Bed-Stuy. See Brooklyn Belafonte, Harry, 80-81 Beloved, 179,216,217 Berlin, Irving, 18 Bert Man, The, 210 BET (Black Entertainment Television), 159, 211, 254n. 5 Betrayal, The, 149 B-film, 232n. 25 Bible, 25 Birycle Thieves, 131 Big Sea, The, 13 "Bird in the Hand, A," 160 Bird, Larry 134 Birmingham (AJabama), 142 Birth ofa Nation, 32, 45, 50, 118 Birth ofa Race, 46 black aesthetic, 116 Copyrighted Material 258 Index Black Audio Film Collective, 175 black arts movement, 90, 97,108 black-cast musicals. See genre; see also musicals Black FilmlWhite Money, 181 black ghetto chronotope. See chronotope black nationalism, 81, 83, 88,115,117,152 Black Panthers, 94,115, 247-48n. 70 black power, 88, 98,141 blaxploitation. See genre Blazing Saddles, 182 blockbusters. See genre Blow, Kurtis, 123 blues, 20, 28, 55 Body and Soul, 49 Bogle, Donald, 103 Bond,james, 120 Boston (MassachusettS): Within Our Gates, 50 Box, The, 159 Boyd, Todd, 171 BoyzNtheHood,2,97, 14.\ 145, 148, 151, 152,153-2,163,164,165,166-7,168, 169,170,171,173,174,177,178,179, 181,188-89,190,210,220,222,252n. 27. See also gender; hood chronotope; hood films Bradford, Roark, 229n. 22 break-dancing, 122 Breathless, 95 Brecht, Bertold, 131, 239n. 65 Broadway, 23, 30 Bronx, The (New York), 122,223 Bronze Buckaroo, The, 71, 185 Bronze Venus, 233n. 42. See also The Duke is Tops Brooklyn (New York), 122-23, 125, 130, 136,188; Bed-Stuy, 125, 130-31, 143, 192-93, 197; Clockers, 189, 191-92, 193-94, 252n. 39; Do The Right Thing, 125,130-31,143; Fort Greene, 133; Fort Greene Park, 129-30; Fulton Mall, 129; hood films, 220-21; She's Gotta Have It, 125-26, 127-30. See also migration Brooklyn chronotope. See chronotope Brooks, Mel, 182 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 31 Brown v. Board ofEd, IS Brown, Ada, 39 Brown, jim, 82 Buell,Jed, 59, 71, 72 The Bull-Dogger, 70 Bulworth, 176, 181-82,249n.4 Bumpers, Eleanor, 140 Burnett, Charles, 107, 108, 109, 216 Buscombe, Edward, 69, 76 Bush, George Sr., 2,147, lSI, 157, 163 Bush Mama, 86, 90, 93, 107-116, 117, 140, 163,224. See also black ghetto chronotope; gender Busta Rhymes, 220 B-Western. See genre CAB (Coalition Against Blaxploitation), 119 cabarets, 61, 62, 75, 233n. 39 Cabin in the Sky, 4, 12, 14, 16, 17,25,30-38, 40,41,112,207. See also antebellum idyll; black-cast musicals; gender Cabral, Amilcar, 108 Cain and Abel, 21 Call ofHis People, The, 48 Calloway, Cab, 39,41,42 Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South, 215 Cambridge, Godfrey, 87 Candyman, 181-82 Cannon,j. D., 92 Carmen Jones, 15,43, 229n. 13 Carwash, 118 Casino, 190 Caught Up, 176 CB-4, 180, 181 Chenault, Lawrence, 55 Chestnutt, Morris, IS5 Chicago (Illinois), 192, 193, 239-40n. I; black ghetto chronotope, 85; Down in the Delta, 213-13, 214; hood films, 182; race films, 48; Stormy Weather, 39,40; Two Gun Man From Harlem, 73, 75; Within Our Gates controversy, 51-52. See also migration chronotope, 4-7, 14, 199,209,227n. 5, 236n. 18, 251n. 23; antebellum idyll, 7, 14-19,22,25-26,30,33,35,37,38...