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"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

African American motion picture producers and directors --- Independent filmmakers --- Independent films --- Experimental films --- History --- Avant-garde films --- Experimental videos --- Personal films --- Underground films --- Motion pictures --- Video art --- Indie films --- Independent moviemakers --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Afro-American motion picture producers and directors --- Motion picture producers and directors, African American --- Sociology of minorities --- Film --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- Los Angeles [California] --- 20th century american film. --- african american filmmakers. --- african filmmakers. --- alternative film. --- american cinema. --- archival work. --- billy woodberry. --- black cinema. --- black experience. --- black visual culture. --- caribbean filmmakers. --- charles burnett. --- cinema. --- critical analysis. --- film and television. --- film studies. --- filmography. --- haile gerima. --- hollywood. --- jamaa fanaka. --- julie dash. --- la rebellion. --- movie theory. --- new black cinema. --- political. --- postwar art. --- rebellion. --- ucla. --- university of california los angeles. --- video artists. --- zeinabu irene davis.

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"Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to this book examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking. From filmic depictions of Native Americans and films by 1920s African American religious leaders to a government educational film about the unequal treatment of Latin American immigrants, these films portrayed--for various purposes and intentions--the lives of those who were mostly excluded from the commercial films being produced in Hollywood. This volume is more than an examination of a broad swath of neglected twentieth-century filmmaking; it is a reevaluation of basic assumptions about American film culture and the place of race within it."-- Back cover.

Minorities in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures in education.

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