Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World

Wil Haygood

464 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black a...

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challenging 45%
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inspiring 18%
adventurous 9%
hopeful 9%

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slow 16%

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