[Commlist] From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep

New publication from Indiana University Press, which we hope will be of 
interest.

*From Street to Screen***

Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep

*Edited by Michael T. Martin & David C. Wall***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253049544/from-street-to-screen/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253049544/from-street-to-screen/>_*

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*CSLS2020*

“With /From Street to Screen, /Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall 
thoughtfully assemble some of the most compelling scholarship on Charles 
Burnett's /Killer of Sheep/, 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 
/Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on 
Screen/**__*

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“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 /Killer of Sheep/, a unique film to date 
about how to survive in 1970's Watts. A historical and filmic landmark, 
/Killer of Sheep/ captures the ghetto and its residents in beautiful 
black and white cinematography.”*—Delphine Letort, author of /The Spike 
Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking/**__*

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Charles 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 companion will serve equally as the 
perfect starting point and standard reference for all viewers, whether 
they are already familiar with the film or coming to it for the first 
time.*__*

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*Michael T. Martin*is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media 
School at Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor or coeditor of 
seven anthologies, and (with David C. Wall) /The Politics and Poetics of 
Black Film: /Nothing But a Man and /Race and the Revolutionary Impulse 
in /The Spook Who Sat by the Door. He also directed and coproduced the 
award-winning feature documentary on Nicaragua In the Absence of Peace, 
distributed by Third World Newsreel.*__*

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*David C. Wall*is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Studies at 
Utah State University. He edited (with Michael T. Martin) /The Politics 
and Poetics of Black Film: /Nothing But a Man and /Race and the 
Revolutionary Impulse in /The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Other recent 
work can be found in /Nineteenth-Century Studies/and /A Companion to the 
Historical Film/.*__*


*Indiana University Press**| Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora 
| December 2020 | 290pp | 9780253049544 | PB | £26.99**

*Price subject to change.

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