The Dolemite RRM collection. by Moore, Rudy Ray, 1927-2008

Subjects:

A film called blacks can't swim / Space DNA Productions presents ; a film by Ed Accura ; a MO-AM Masters Film prodction.

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Furiously funny : comic rage in late 20th century African-American literature / Terrence T. Tucker. by Tucker, Terrence T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. …”
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Jews and humor / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- One clove away from a pomander ball : the subversive tradition of Jewish female comedians / Joyce Antler -- Heckling the divine : Woody Allen, the Book of Job, and Jewish theology after the Holocaust / Jason Kalman -- Tragicomedy and zikkaron in Mel Brooks's "To be or not to be" / Joan Latchaw and David Peterson -- "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" : the musical humor of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in historical and geographical perspective / Theodore Albrecht -- The new Jewish blackface : African American tropes in contemporary Jewish humor / David Gillota.…”
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Furiously Funny : Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. by Tucker, Terrence T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. …”
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Furiously Funny : Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. by Tucker, Terrence T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. …”
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Ethnic humor in multiethnic America / David Gillota. by Gillota, David, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the boundaries of American ethnic humor -- "Just us": African American humor in multiethnic America -- The new Jewish blackface: ethnic anxiety in contemporary Jewish humor -- "Cracker, please": toward a white ethnic humor -- Imagining diversity: corporate multiculturalism in the children's film and the situation comedy -- Comedy without borders? …”

Ethnic humor in multiethnic America / David Gillota. by Gillota, David, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the boundaries of American ethnic humor -- "Just us": African American humor in multiethnic America -- The new Jewish blackface: ethnic anxiety in contemporary Jewish humor -- "Cracker, please": toward a white ethnic humor -- Imagining diversity: corporate multiculturalism in the children's film and the situation comedy -- Comedy without borders? …”
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African Americans and popular culture / edited by Todd Boyd.

Table of Contents: “…v. 1: Theater, film, and television. The politics of representation in African American theater and drama / Brandi Wilkins Catanese -- Blacks in early cinema / Daniel Bernardi -- Early African American pioneers in independent cinema : from humor as camouflage to provocation as revelation / Charlene Regester -- Women in film / Ingrid Banks -- Urban cinema / Paula J. …”

Killer of sheep : the Charles Burnett collection / Milestone Film and Steven Soderbergh present.

Freedom in laughter : Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement / Malcolm Frierson. by Frierson, Malcolm, 1974-

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Portrait of Jason / a film by Shirley Clarke.

The Angel Levine / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists ; Belafonte Enterprises ; produced by Chiz Schultz ; directed by Jan Kadar ; screenplay by Bill Gunn and Ronald Ribman. by Malamud, Bernard

The main stream / produced and directed by Roger Weisberg. by Weisberg, Roger

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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. producer, Natalie Bullock Brown/Ascension Productions.

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Killing time. / written and directed by Fronza Woods ; produced by the Women's Interart Center, Inc. ; Smith-Woods Production. Invisible women.

Richard Pryor in Hollywood : the narrative films, 1967-1997 / Anthony Balducci. by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

The origins of film the Library of Congress ; Smithsonian Video.

The wedding proposal / a documentary by Anjanette Levert ; written, directed and produced by T. Anjanette Levert.

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Bamboozled / a Spike Lee joint ; New Line Cinema presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee ; written and directed by Spike Lee.