Focusing on drama and light entertainment, this text documents a range of experiences and representations of people of African descent in British film and cinema. It includes chapters about silent films, the British films of Paul Robeson, black film extras of the 1930s, Trinidadian singer and actor Edric Connor, early black filmmakers and writers, including Lionel Ngakane, Lloyd Reckord and Michael Abbensetts, actor Gordon Heath, black women in early British television, entertainer Winifred Atwell, actress Carmen Munroe, soaps, film and television drama since 1959, lesbians and gays, actor and writer Errol John and two landmark television plays: the BBC's "A Man from the Sun" (1956) and Channel 4's "The Final Passage" (1996).
- ISBN10 6612309970
- ISBN13 9786612309977
- Publish Date 1 May 2005 (first published 3 January 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English