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Author 1:Sarita Malik
Title:Beyond 'The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s
Published in:Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema
Edited by:Andrew Higson, ed.
Place:London/New York
Publisher:Cassell
Year:1996
Vol./No./Date:
Pages:202-215
Location:TABB; FB Neuphilologie: OG 850.077
Synopsis:Malik traces the development of black British film by examining the struggles which led to the emergence of a distinct black film movement in Britain in the mid-1980s. Additionally, Malik discusses the economic, political and cultural shifts which have occurred since the 1980s. She provides a historical survey on issues of blackness, the specificity of British Asian film and the 'populism' of recent productions.
Keyword 1:black British film
Keyword 2:independent film
Keyword 3:mainstream
Keyword 4:representation
Keyword 5:Britain
Keyword 6:British cinema
Keyword 7:history
Keyword 8:film industry
Keyword 9:black filmmaking
Keyword 10:Asian
Keyword 11:non-mainstream

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