Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword, Jon Woronoff
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendixes
ANAACP Image Award Winners
BAfrican American Academy Award Winners
CAfrican American Golden Globe Award Winners
DBlack Filmmakers Hall of Fame Inductees
ETop Grossing African American Films
Bibliography and Internet Sources
About the Authors

About the Author

S. Torriano Berry is an award-winning independent filmmaker who has created and executive produced the anthology series Black Independent Showcase and Black Visions/Silver Screen: Howard University Student Film, two half-hour made-for-television movies, The Light and When It’s Your Turn. He is the creator of the science fiction anthology series The Black Beyond, and his feature-length horror film EMBALMER, is available on Netflix He is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Howard University.

Venise T. Berry is the author of three best-selling novels: Colored Sugar Water, All of Me, AVoluptuous Tale, and So Good, An African American Love Story. She is coauthor of The 50 Most Influential Black Films and coeditor of Black Culture & Experience: Contemporary Issues and Mediated Messages and African-American Culture: Contemporary Issues 1996. She is currently completing a memoir entitled Driven and finishing her fourth novel Sansara. She Berry is currently an associate professor in African American Studies, and journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Reviews

The authors, S. Torriano Berry and Venise T. Berry, utilize their academic and professional knowledge of mass communications, writing and cinema to create an extensive, comprehensive tome. . . .[T]he depth and coverage of this work is impressive. . . .As someone who has studied African American history, I found this to be a unique, interesting and extensive work that can be useful to some special libraries and most large academic or public libraries. While this book would greatly benefit students in African American studies programs, it could also be a good resource for libraries that have demand for cultural and mass communication studies.
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