Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Soul Cinema Film of the Day: 'Cotton Comes to Harlem'




























"In its novelistic form, Cotton Comes to Harlem both anticipated and helped to create several important trends in the articulation of African American popular culture during the Black Power Era, especially as it was translated through the idioms of visual culture."--Amy Abugo Ongiri, Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic.

Trailer of the 1970 movie starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx & Calvin Lockhart, directed by Ossie Davis and based on a novel by Chester Himes.

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