{"product_id":"from-street-to-screen-9780253049544","title":"From Street to Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the first book-length collection dedicated to the film and designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett's master's thesis project in 1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of Sheep immediately became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American film that came to be known variously as the LA School or LA Rebellion. By bringing together a wide variety of material, this volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the film as well as its deeper social and contextual histories. This expansive and incisive critical co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eFrom Street to Screen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eMichael T. Martin and David C. Wall thoughtfully assemble some of the most compelling scholarship on Charles Burnett's \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e, providing an essential collection of essays for those who want to understand the cinematic impact of Burnett and his seminal American film. The engaging essays situate, historicize, and textually examine the deeply poetic and neo-realist rendering of Black life in Burnett's film while the inclusion of the  screenplay, biography, and filmography lend this compendium to a range of pedagogical impulses.\"—Samantha N. Sheppard, Cornell University, author of \u003cem\u003eSporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Martin and David Wall bring long-awaited attention to a film that reflects the pioneering spirit of L.A Rebellion filmmakers. Their edited collection gathers a series of texts that inform the poetic politics of Charles Burnett's \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique film to date about how to survive in 1970's Watts. A historical and filmic landmark, \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e captures the ghetto and its residents in beautiful black and white cinematography.\"—Delphine Letort, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece of American cinema, \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e finally receives a much-deserved sustained study of its form, style, and fascinating production history. \u003ci\u003eFrom Street to Screen\u003c\/i\u003e brings together rich contextualizing essays, original readings, an in-depth interview with director Charles Burnett, and the film's original screenplay. A comprehensive sourcebook, this volume is an indispensable companion to the film and to independent Black cinema more generally.\"—Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago, author of \u003cem\u003eUplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e: Charles Burnett and the Poetry of Oppression \u003cbr\u003eDavid C. Wall and Michael T. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART ONE: Situating \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e: Time\/Place\/Circumstance\u003cbr\u003eCinema and Black Liberation (David E. James)\u003cbr\u003eStruggles for the \u003ci\u003eSign\u003c\/i\u003e in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles Collective of Black Filmmakers (Michael T. Martin)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Burnett: A Reconsideration of Third Cinema (Amy Ongiri)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Burnett—Consummate Cineaste (Michael T. Martin)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART TWO: Reading Killer of Sheep\u003cbr\u003eToward a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics: Representations of Los Angeles in Non-Industrial Cinema – [Charles Burnett's] \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e (David E. James) \u003cbr\u003eAn Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e, (Neo) Realism, and the Documentary \u003cbr\u003eImpulse (Paula J. Massood)\u003cbr\u003eNeo-Realism Meets the Blues in Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (Keith Mehlinger) \u003cbr\u003eKiller of Sheep (James Naremore)\u003cbr\u003eKiller of Sheep (Jeffrey Skoller) \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNous revenons à nos moutons\u003c\/i\u003e: Regarding Animals in Charles Burnett's \u003ci\u003eKiller of Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e (Sarah O'Brien) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART THREE\u003cbr\u003eScreenplay\u003cbr\u003eBiography and Filmography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400600527191,"sku":"9780253049544","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253049544.jpg?v=1730471077","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-street-to-screen-9780253049544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}