Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Horror noire : a history of black horror / written and produced by Ashlee Blackwell, Danielle Burrows ; directed by Xavier Burgin.

Publisher, Date:

[Chatsworth, California] : Image Entertainment, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this documentary traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. Adapting Robin Means Coleman's seminal book, this will present the living and the dead, using new and archival interviews from scholars and creators; the voices who survived the genre's past trends, to those shaping its future.

Subjects:

African Americans in motion pictures.

Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism.

Race in motion pictures.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Burgin, Xavier, film director.

Blackwell, Ashlee, film producer, screenwriter.

Burrows, Danielle, film producer, screenwriter.