Ebook: Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
Author: Mia Mask
- Genre: Art // Cinema
- Tags: Performing Arts, Nonfiction, PER000000, PER004120, PER004150
- Year: 2023
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- City: Urbana
- Language: English
- epub
A first-of-its kind survey, Black Rodeo illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western.
|AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
|"Richly researched. . . . This carefully crafted academic treatment will enhance library shelves." —Library Journal (starred review)
"Mask provides an insightful commentary on the Civil Rights era and its African-American-themed Westerns from today's perspective."—Angela Aleiss, author of Hollywood's Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance
|Mia Mask is a professor of film at Vassar College, where she holds the Mary Riepma Ross 1932 endowed chair of film. She has appeared on CNN's The Movies, the Smithsonian Channel, the Criterion Channel, and has provided commentary on National Public Radio. Her books include Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age and Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.