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Black cinema shifts from subtexts to big budget black revolu tion
Hollywood notes a new era as films made by black filmmakers target mainly black audiences yet draw white patrons, led by Sidney Poitier and the success of Shaft. The article traces the evolution from minstrel stereotypes to major studio investments and rising black directors shaping the urban film market.
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Hollywood
Shaft
New York
MGM
United States
Canada
Rastus
Sambo
D. W. Griffith
Stepin Fetchit
Willie Best
Farina
Paul Robeson
Emperor Jones
Sanders of
Lena Horne
Sidney Poitier
Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Poitier
Jim Brown
Brown
Raymond St. Jacques
Richard Roundtree
Godfrey Cambridge
Calvin Lockhart
Yaphet Kotto