Michael Schultz : the times and films of Holywood's lone Black director

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dc.contributor.advisorWatkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig)
dc.creatorCorson, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-07T16:44:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:11Z
dc.date.available2016-12-07T16:44:44Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:11Z
dc.date.issued2007-05
dc.description.abstractThe following thesis explores the career of director Michael Schultz (Cooley High, Car Wash, The Last Dragon, et al); the lone African American to consistently find work as a director in Hollywood during the years separating the fall of the blaxploitation era in 1976 and the arrival of Spike Lee, Robert Townsend, and a host of young black filmmakers in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In large part centered on an extensive interview I conducted with Schultz in October of 2006, I hope to accomplish a unique blend of oral history and academic analysis; allowing Schultz to tell his own story without denying my own sense of perspective and analysis. Schultz’s vantage point and recollections will be counter-balanced by my own analytical and historical framework. My goal is to use Schultz’s career to illuminate a problematic era in Hollywood (and American society as a whole), in which African American images were virtually erased from the cinematic landscape. Schultz’s career illustrates various trends in the film industry as well as African American arts.en_US
dc.description.departmentRadio-Television-Filmen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T20G3H204
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/43927
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectMichael Schultz (film director)en_US
dc.subjectAfrican-American film directorsen_US
dc.subjectAfrican-Americans in Hollywooden_US
dc.subjectAfrican-American filmsen_US
dc.titleMichael Schultz : the times and films of Holywood's lone Black directoren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US

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