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Gray's new work follows his Blacks in Classical Music (CH, Dec'88) and his Black Theatre and Performance: a Pan-African Bibliography (CH, Oct'90). As one reads through the introduction, it is evident that Gray has worked diligently in creating this extensive bibliography. The title is misleading, however, in that only the first 99 pages deal with African sources of information. The next 16 pages cover European cinema and the remaining 382 pages of text are concerned strictly with the African-American film experience. The book contains useful artist, subject, and author indexes to the more than 6,000 entries in this bibliography. An appendix provides helpful lists of film resources, archives, and associations. Many of the 977 items included in Marshall Hyatt's The Afro-American Cinematic Experience (CH, Sep'83) can be found repeated in Gray's book. If Hyatt is not already in the collection, then Gray is highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate libraries. -R. C. Dickey, University of North Texas
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