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McMickle, Marvin. "Film Portrayals of the Black Preacher," American Studies, Case Western Reserve University, November 1997.
My dissertation studies the representation of the black preacher in American films from 1929-1997. It studies the practice of stereotyping black people in film, giving special attention to the stereotypes attached to the preacher. This study is a continuation of work already done that looks at the black preacher in oral studies and literature, and that H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. did with three films in 1972. This study compares and contrasts the film image of the black preacher with the four categories of leadership that Peter Paris identifies as the way in which this character actually functioned in the black community; priestly, prophetic, political and nationalistic. The study is based upon thirty-five films that include biographies, comedies, dramas and composite characterizations.
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