HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 12: Special Guest Donald Bogle attends the screening of ‘A Patch of Blue’ at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for TCM)
*Film historian Donald Bogle has released another stellar anthology of African American cinematic history, this time it’s in partnership with Turner Classic Movies.
The result is Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers. From Birth of a Nation to Black Panther, Bogle lays out a historical framework for how Blacks found work in the movie industry on both sides of the camera.
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Film enthusiasts of all persuasions will be intrigued by how people of color were woven into war movies, race movies, musicals, Blaxploitation movies, comedies, drama and finally the full and noble evolution into Wakunda.
Bogle provides a detailed journey of the artistic breakthrough from stereotypical roles played by Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson to the leading man and lady status of Harry Belafonte’, Dorothy Dandridge, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Lou Gossett, Jr. and more.
Source: Donald Bogle Captures More Film History in New TCM Book ‘Hollywood Black’ – LISTEN
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