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Title: Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle ISBN: 0-8264-1267-X Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Why Can't He Just Talk About The Talent
Comment: We owe a lot to Donald Bogle for his specialities in Black Movie History. But, I'm getting sick and tried of his writing about skin color. I wish he would just talk about talent and their lives. Calling these women "Tragic Mulattos" isnt' telling us anything. These women didn't think of themselves as Tragic or Mulattos. It's like he wants them to be remembered that way. These women knew they wouldn't have much success in Hollywood and they knew it would be racism. They enjoyed the few things they did do. It wasn't racism that held these women back, a lot of times it was their own race and by being a woman is what held them back. Nina Mae McKinney who's a relative of mine is degraded by Mr. Bogle. He doesn't know what to write about her, so he writes "Oh, she was a mulatto, she was too light, she was the screen's first victim." Nina Mae wasn't any of that. Hopefully my book on her and a few others with tell the true story. Yes, Mr. Bogle introduced the world to Black Entertainment History but he's making these talented people be remembered the wrong way. You don't see white people writing about their people, the way he does. For instance, you don't see white people writing "Blondes are better, then red-heads, the brunettes are smarter"- you get what i mean? Susan Hayward had irish in her, you don't see the author referring to that throughout the whole book. Rita Hayworth was Spanish. Books that have been written on her doesn't spend the whole book talking about her being Spanish. It talks about her life and introduce the public to her. Mr. Bogle spends too much time on skin color- he makes it look as though skin color is the reason for every bad thing in their life.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's a history of African Americans in films
Comment: This book is very interesting and valuable. Mr. Bogle is one of the authorities on African Americans in films. He put a lot of examples in his book. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, all images in American films, are history of the race and culture in the U.S.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great work on unsung African-Americans of the cinema
Comment: With the well-deserved and timely wins of Halle Berry and Denzel Washington in their respective Oscar categories, those unfamiliar with past black actors need to pick up a copy of Bogle's well-researched and entertaining book.
I read it upon it initial printing and still find it to be an invaluable resource for those of us interested in ALL of moviemaking.
More than just a coffee-table book, the work is an insightful and fitting homage to the predecessors of the current crop of blacks in film.
Boy, what these old school thespians had to endure just to get a "piece of the pie". It's enough to make you cry.
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Title: Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Culture and the Moving Image) by Ed Guerrero ISBN: 1566391261 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Black American Cinema (Afi Film Readers) by Manthia Diawara ISBN: 0415903971 Publisher: Brunner-Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television by Donald Bogle ISBN: 0374527180 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 20 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 by Thomas Cripps ISBN: 0195021304 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen by Lisa M. Anderson ISBN: 0847684199 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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