Notes on Banding Records and Plumages of the Black-Headed Grosbeak

Michener, Josephine R.; Michener, Harold

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“…'If they're going to put the damper on John Shaft,' declared African American actor James Earl Jones, 'let them put it on John Wayne too and they'll find out there are a lot of people who need those fantasies.' 64 The reception of Sounder: authenticity, myth and nostalgia…”

Section: The Blaxploitation Boom and Soundermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She wasn't going to be entertained by a film about black suffering, because she knows about black suffering. 105 Blaxploitation films, by contrast, featured American cinema's first black heroes. They also provided direct pleasures that were entirely absent from Sounder-namely sex and violence-the twin channels through which the viewer could sublimate his or her frustrations.…”

Section: The Blaxploitation Boom and Soundermentioning

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‘The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen’?: The African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation, and the Production and Reception ofSounder(1972)

Symmons¹

2014

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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The black historical film Sounder (1972) was a key feature of the heated debate over race representation in Hollywood cinema in the early 1970s. Indeed, while marking a break from the post-Second World War social problem film, this Depression-set family drama also ran counter to the controversial blaxploitation boom of the period, by emphasising universal themes over those of race. Widely acclaimed in the national press, these qualities also focalised the ongoing conflict over values pertaining to the splintering of the Civil Rights movement and the rise of Black Power in the second half of the 1960s. Making use of a range of primary source materials, including letters sent to the film's producer and director, this analysis examines Sounder's turbulent social, cultural and ideological contexts. It considers the aims and influence of key personnel, the wider discussion of black filmic representation, and the film's complex and contradictory contemporary reception.This article examines the production and reception of Sounder (1972), a film that focuses on the African American historical experience and that was a key discursive site in the wider discussion of race in the early 1970s. Indeed, this family drama, set in the Depression-era South, occupies a unique and contradictory position in relation to the heated debates surrounding the problem of race and its representation during

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Section: The Blaxploitation Boom and Soundermentioning

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Section: The Blaxploitation Boom and Soundermentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen’?: The African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation, and the Production and Reception ofSounder(1972)

Symmons¹

2014

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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“…Despite his interest in botany, Michener, like Darlington, ultimately became a physician. Michener’s medical education and experience started when he was hired as an assistant to the apothecarist at the Philadelphia Dispensary while studying at the University of Pennsylvania (Michener 1893). He received his diploma in 1818 after an oral examination by five physicians (Michener 1893).…”

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“…Michener’s medical education and experience started when he was hired as an assistant to the apothecarist at the Philadelphia Dispensary while studying at the University of Pennsylvania (Michener 1893). He received his diploma in 1818 after an oral examination by five physicians (Michener 1893). In his autobiography, Dr. Michener (1893) describes himself as both a country doctor and a farm manager.…”

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