In Touch with the Spirit:
Black Religious and Musical
Expression in American Cinema
The Black Film Center/Archive's monograph In Touch with the Spirit: Black Religious and Musical Expression in American Cinema presents a sampling of the papers delivered at the Black Film Center/Archive's In Touch with the Spirit conference held July 9-12, 1992 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The papers are grouped into three sections: the scholar's involvement in the filmmaking process, early black theater and cinema, and contemporary issues in black cinema and other forms of popular expression.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction:
- In Touch with Film, the World of Academe and the Spirit of African- American Culture by Gloria J. Gibson.
- Part 1: Scholars and the Filmmaking Process
- Saturday Nite, Sunday Morning: The Secular/Sacred Dynamic in the life of Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore by Mellonee Burnim.
- "To Be or Not to Be...?" Notes on the Art of filming African-American Real Life by Gerald Davis.
- In the Rapture: The Anatomy of an Afro-American Documentary Film by William H. Wiggins, Jr.
- Part 2: Early Black Cinema
- Black Theatre Development and Black Film: 1910-1921 by Bettye Collier-Thomas.
- Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul: A Film of Conflicting Themes by Charlene Regester.
- Oscar Micheaux's Darktown Revue: Caricature and Class Conflict by J. Ronald Green.
- Part 3: Contemporary Black Issues in Cinema
- Defining the Right Thing: Sanity and Violence in the Works of Twentieth Century African-American Dramatists by John Howard.
- Contemporary African-American Religious Quests for a Popular-Based Political Culture by R. Drew Smith.
