Writing Black Britain, 1948–98

Writing Black Britain, 1948–98The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser known artists, critics and commentators:. Sam Selvon Salman Rushdie George Lamming Hanif Kureishi Stuart

historic cinemas and film venues around the city

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in the development of contemporary art and performance

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s

Academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history

Largely a future possibility rather than present actuality

and TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell

forced to radically reduce their programs and shut down for extended periods

The content is not only analytic

the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face

accompanied by full-colour stills and interspersed with essays examining the city’s unique character onscreen

the means chosen and in which modes the resulting complexes of documents are created

developing comics theory and speaking to additional media and disciplines