... . Films featuring Afro-Americans, throughout the period from 1895, the starting year of commercial cinema, to the 1960s, pretended to be about the Afro-Americans, about Afro-American culture, their themes and problems. But as American films were predominantly produced and financed by Anglo-Americans, representing their own views and attitudes, films featuring black Americans must be looked at critically, not ... ' demands of the time". Lowe interpreted the role of Uncle Tom, who "still came off as a genial darkey, furnished with new color but no new sentiments", with such a power of persu...

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... collective praxis..."3 In an era we have so easily conceived of as "post-Vietnam," Jameson's general pronouncement about "history" seems especially appropriate. There are many, no matter what their political persuasion, who say "we lost the war," a consensus recognition of frustrated national desire. The films about US intervention in Vietnam are structured around this confrontation between "desire" and "history." The difficulty ... big screen. Kovic's home life was given screen time well beyond what was depicted in his memoir. This was done mainly because Stone wanted to emphasize some...

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