Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American. A Separate Cinema is the first book to present a histoy of black-cast films through their posters. Separate cinema : the first 100 years of black poster art by John Kisch. The race movies covered the full spectrum of popular film genres, from musicals (The Bronze Venus) to comedies (She's Too Mean for Me) to Westerns (Two-Gun Man from Harlem) to short films, showcasing the talents of everyone from Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway to Louis Jordan.

At the height of this boom, there were as many as six hundred theaters on the race-movie circuit. Independent film studios - many of them black-owned - produced hundreds of 'race movies,' films with all-black casts, aimed at black audiences. John Kisch A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters Paperback Januby John Kisch (Author), Edward Mapp (Author), Donald Bogle (Introduction), 22 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 38.22 7 Used from 37.75 1 New from 45.29 1 Collectible from 95. Originally, A Separate Cinema was a traveling poster exhibit put together by John Kisch of the Separate Cinema Archives, which houses several thousand original movie posters from. 'As early as the 1920s, a thriving black film industry existed in the United States. Large soft cover/trade, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, ink name on ffep, 168 pages, filled with over 200 color posters, publishers stamp on bottom edge. A Separate Cinema: 50 Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch, Spike Lee(Preface), Donald Bogle(Introduction), Edward Mapp 4.

Separate Cinema by John Kisch