Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 by Roland Leander Williams Jr

Television and Popular Culture

Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

Roland Leander Williams Jr

232 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative medium-paced
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Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an ...

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