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The color of Hollywood: The cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000

Ndounou, Monica
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180535612

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This study identifies and analyzes the factors that controlled the production and determined the success or failure of African American original screenplays and stage plays adapted into films in the United States of America during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Until we understand how economics and race intersect to create the vicious cycle of the perceived failure of African American films, the current system will ensure the continuous devaluing of African Americans and their work in the film industry. This dissertation documents data from 1,716 African American feature films and other films featuring African Americans. This data is analyzed in the context of the investment criteria used by Hollywood executives. The criteria are investigated in the context of cultural politics in order to identify the intersections of economics and race to better explore the crisis that African Americans face in the film industry. Each chapter and section answers specific questions related to the economic and cultural performance of original screenplays and stage plays adapted into film. Each chapter and section answers the following questions: What factors controlled the production of African American films from 1980 to 2000? What roles did African Americans play in the process? How do these factors affect the cultural and economic outcome of the film? This study provides a new approach to analyzing African American films.
Stratos Constantinidis (Advisor)
Cultural Politics; Crossover Appeal; African American Theatre; African American Film; African American Novels; Adaptation

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  • Ndounou, M. (2007). The color of Hollywood: The cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180535612

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ndounou, Monica. The color of Hollywood: The cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000. 2007. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180535612.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ndounou, Monica. "The color of Hollywood: The cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180535612

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