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	Mandingo
		Mandingo was based on Kyle Onstott's bestseller by the same name, which had sold nine and a half million copies.
		But MANDINGO was an obvious statement of the inhumanity of slave-OWNing, and it constantly used the setting and characters to emphasize the moral and physical disintegration of the Deep South under the self-imposed yoke of the slave culture.
		Mandingo is a hell of a disturbing movie, and Hammond Maxwell is a hell of a disturbing character.
	us.geocities.com /rachelmartin64/Mandingo.html (2602 words)

	PlanetPapers - Historical Accuracy in Films
		If a film is based mainly on emotion, then any ideological feelings about the practices of humanity in the past may be lost with the sickening of the heart.
		This film is based on a true story, and although the event in reality was most likely far different from what happens in the movie, it is enough to know that the events are at least similar.
		Mandingo, on the other hand, is clearly not a great film by any stretch of the imagination.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/1469.php (1859 words)

	Mandingo (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandingo is a lurid 1975 film, based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott, about a African slave in the 1840s United States who is trained as a prize fighter by his owner.
		The owner is unaware that his neglected wife is having an affair with his best fighter, which leads to the film's tragic conclusion.
		The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, son of animator Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye) and featured James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Lillian Hayman, and boxer-turned-actor Ken Norton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandingo_(film) (127 words)

	Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan… and Beyond (Robin Wood) \| Film International
		The latter two films are defended primarily because of their assaults on the patriarchal and/or capitalist foundations of American society, and on the corrupting impact of patriarchy and/or capitalism on all human relationships.
		This is because film produced in a capitalist society has to be sold to a complex and contradictory audience in order to make money, whereas Fascist and Communist art is inherently incapable of complexity, in part because it can simply be forced both on the artist and the audience by the government.
		And meanwhile, when films do occasionally emerge from the Hollywood production-for-profit factory that are both hugely disturbing and very popular with younger audiences, Wood is now much more dubious of their moral center than he was regarding such films in the 1980s.
	www.filmint.nu /?q=node/25 (2269 words)

	Blaxploitation
		It should be noted that the term 'blaxploitation' refers to the films' continuation of the trashy 'exploitation' films of the 1960's rather than the film studios 'using' fl actors.
		Mandingo is a 1975 film, based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott, about a African slave in the 1840s United States who is trained as a prize fighter by his owner.
		The film that gave Pam Grier her first leading role and vaulted her to queen bee of the blaxploitation movement also inspired a soundtrack that is arguably Roy Ayers's most rewarding work.
	www.jahsonic.com /Blaxploitation.html (3644 words)

	Mandingo (1975) - IMDb user comments
		One need only recall a film like Schepsi's The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith, where the revolt of the repressed is made explicit, to see how restrained the lead in Mandingo is. Mede's final violent acts, done almost in sorrow at his master's failings, are ultimately much less cathartic than natural justice and the audience demands.
		This is an underrated, truly great film on the subject of slavery, sexual hypocrisy and the haunted, hothouse atmosphere of generations of white bad karma in the 19th century deep south.
		One of the things that's most disturbing about the film is the depiction of the consequences of slavery, racism and hypocrisy on the white race, how it warps son, Perry King's natural tenderness towards Brenda Sykes into a horrifying insecure paranoia that evolves into aberrantly exaggerated jealousy and sexually motivated violence by the climax.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0073349/usercomments (3827 words)

	Mandingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandingo, a bestselling novel originally published in 1957
		Mandingo, a 1975 film based on the novel
		This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandingo (86 words)

	Cajuns in Film: Cajuns: Movies: Documentaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		The first Tarzan movie was filmed near Morgan City and in the 1920s, Dolores Del Rio starred in a film adaptation of Longfellow's "Evangeline." Since then, a few dozen films have been set among Louisiana's Cajuns, with results ranging from curious and haunting to bizarre and threatening.
		This is a problem common to documentaries, especially those filmed not in some aboriginal tribe where everything really is different, but in America were many things are similar, the eccentricities of a culture end up defining it.
		It is unlikely that film makers who have presented this area poorly in the past did so because they had it in for us.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajuns_in_Film.html (6052 words)

	mandingo - movie and tv vault reviews at videovista.net
		Mandingo is one of those films like Birth Of A Nation, or Triumph Of The Will, in which one is forced contemplate objectionable content while reluctantly allowing mitigating qualities.
		But it is also one of the first films supposedly to show the slave-south as it was: as a casually cruel society harbouring an odious institution, one that debased human relationships at every level.
		As Mede, the 'mandingo' in question, ex-boxing champion Norton is at the centre of the film.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/jan03/mandingo.html (1025 words)

	Barnicle apologizes for racial remark - The Boston Globe
		Barnicle used the word "Mandingo" on Tuesday to describe Langhart -- who is African-American and married to former secretary of defense William S. Cohen, who is white -- on WTKK-FM (96.9).
		Mandingos, or Mandes, are members of a group of West African people.
		"Mandingo" is also the title of a 1975 movie in which a fl male slave is paired intimately with a white female slave master.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/03/27/barnicle_apologizes_for_racial_remark (724 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Mandingo’s stage is Louisiana in 1840 (the year of the Cinque mutiny trials dramatized in Spielberg’s inflated Amistad, 1997), a time and place where race was destiny for fls.
		Their prize acquisition is Mede, a “Mandingo” (the name is possibly a corruption of the “Mandinka” people of West Africa), a “brand” of slave coveted for his strength and potency.
		Mandingo is two entities at once: the economics contains the melodrama, while the potboiler is the repository of all the sexual conflicts and betrayals that reveal how the lucrative enterprise worked on a human level.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue13/mandingo.html (5451 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		His prestigious films are often marked by bloat (Andrew Sarris places him in Strained Seriousness) and his forms are undoubtedly subject to the styles and demands of the year, the decade, the industry, the genre, the stars, and so forth.
		What distinguishes this film is its fusion of seemingly disparate elements into a mind-boggling synthesis: we have a pulp narrative, practically devoid of sympathetic characters, marked by the taint of America’s racist past and its continued racial imbalance, which in turn rhymes with the flourish of residual classical Hollywood style.
		Mandingo is a film in which the very few characters who might be considered sympathetic are largely silenced or trampled upon by the others.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue13/metteurs.html (2300 words)

	Lords of Lounge Volume 4
		While the emphasis was always on the sentimental in his subsequent scores, like Lady Sings The Blues and The Three Musketeers, he did fortunately keep his hand in with a good few cheesy album releases throughout the 70's before winning the last of several Oscars for the score to the abominable Yentl in 1983.
		Mandingo remains an extremely mysterious and yet highly enjoyable proposition, in that they never really existed, but produced some of the greatest Lounge moments known to man or beast.
		Selections from that film don't really make for a groovy time, and there are plenty of them, more's the pity.
	www.vinylvulture.co.uk /pages/lounge4b.htm (2376 words)

	Mandingo (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Edwin W. Edwards (Governor of Louisiana at the time) was cast as a gambler and several scenes were filmed but excised before release.
		Upon the advice of public relations staff, Edwards decided the potential damage to his public image when the salacious content of the film was revealed would be too great.
		The Mandingo did not go willingly into the Pit.
	imdb.com /title/tt0073349 (373 words)

	Untitled Document
		Background on director/film: Political involvement is in Malian film director Cheikh Oumar Sissoko's family history; one of his mother's brothers was a famous anti-colonial activist, who went on to support a pan-West African federation and was eventually jailed after a Western-inspired coup d'etat in 1968.
		The $350,000 film was funded by Malian private investors; Malian government in-kind contributions; German TV channel ZDF; and the French Ministry of Co-operation.
		The film debuted to positive reviews in te U.S. simultaneously at the San Francisco Film Festival and at Filmfest D.C., and has been seen primarily as part of the Library of African Cinema.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/media/aufderheide/finzan.html (1237 words)

	HBO Short Film Award Finalists Selected to Compete at Film Life & HBO American Black Film Festival
		"Mandingo in a Box," written and directed by Daheli Hall, is a satire that takes an unorthodox look at romance and the Black woman's quest for the ever- elusive Black man. Hall holds a BFA in Theater from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Producing for Film and TV from USC.
		He directed the music video for "Dubliner" as well as his own film project, "Falling for Toby." "Winnie and the Duppy Bat," written and directed by Annetta Laufer is the story of a young girl who tries to save her dying mother by confronting cultural superstitions.
		The 2005 HBO Short Film Award was won by co-writers/directors Jonathan David Boyce and Jonathan Levine for their film "Shards," the story of a DJ and graffiti artist who struggles to kick a drug habit after a friend overdoses.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-05-2006/0004374424&EDATE= (749 words)

	Film & TV: Scanlines (Austin Chronicle . 08-16-99)
		Richard Fleischer's debut film is an underappreciated noir caper film that, at 70 minutes, hasabsolutely no wasted motion in its direction andno wasted space in the plot.
		This is the type of film that the phrase B programmer was invented for; if only modern-day, big-buck caper films such as Heat or Dead Presidents could have this movie's economy and breathless, excited pacing.
		There are also those films that use it as a vehicle to show the glamorized excess of artists.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-16-99/austin_screens_scanlines.html (1239 words)

	Racist Films - movies
		But while films ostracized for overly sexual content or extreme violence may be a common topic on morning news shows or Entertainment Tonight, there are some films that are given a quiet burial for being deemed "ethnically inappropriate" or even racist.
		She has the Mandingo fiction in her head as fact, and she is excited abut it.
		The film sat unreleased for a full year after it conquered Sundance because squeamish distributors were afraid of the public's reaction to such a story.
	www.versusmag.org /media/paper584/news/2002/10/16/Movies/Racist.Films-296066.shtml (957 words)

	Amazon.com: Mandingo: Video: James Mason,Susan George,Perry King,Richard Ward,Brenda Sykes,Ken Norton,Lillian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		The imagery of Falconhurst, the huge but decrepit plantation of a cruel and vicious man (James Mason in a strange and brilliant performance) is fantastic; with peeling paint and filthy mosquito nets, winding staircases of gleaming wood, dark steamy rooms, and lush exteriors with drooping wisteria.
		This film is a mass of contradictions, which is probably what keeps one glued to the screen.
		I gave this film 5 stars for the historical setting, because I felt the period was depicted quite well and had believable characters, even though Southern Society was somewhat exaggerated in its depiction.
	www.amazon.com /Mandingo-James-Mason/dp/6300216632 (1428 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Liberia: Human Rights Developments
		Ethnic Krahn and Mandingo people, historically seen to be allied with the repression of the former Doe government and with anti-Taylor factions during the war, were particularly susceptible to harassment at the hands of the state security apparatus.
		He was later accused of speaking against the president and charged with "criminal malfeasance." In August, a foreign news film team-David Barrie, Tim Lambon, Gugulakhe Radebe, and Sorious Samura-who were in Liberia to film a documentary, were arrested, charged with espionage, and detained for a week.
		The film team had been given official permission to film in Liberia, but were arrested and accused of filming in restricted areas and seeking to damage the country's image by falsely linking President Charles Taylor to diamond smuggling.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/africa/liberia.html (1393 words)

	Stinky Cinema : 300, April 19, 2007
		O'Grady begins the film by comparing the interview to a Catholic confession and expresses his hope that his victims come to the understanding that he believes that "it shouldn't have happened." Only through the course of the film do we begin to understand the lack of compassion and remorse that this man has.
		The film is in three parts: first is a story of a young boy in Baghdad, followed by the story of Sadr's supporters in the south, and finally a story of a Kurdish family.
		This is the original Hong Kong film that Scorsese used as the basis for The Departed.
	stinkycinema.com (4396 words)

	Tony Krantz interview
		Doing a movie in 15 days requires that, and this was a film that was very specific given the surreality of it all and had to have that kind of detail in everything.
		It's a film that comes with hip-checks to our current President, who is doing a really poor job when it comes to people liking and loving America and Americans and what we stand for.
		Again, while I’m sure the film is open to the viewer’s interpretation, I got the idea that perhaps being in a coma is a strange kind of purgatory, where you face all the things you’ve always been afraid of or tried to suppress.
	www.iconsoffright.com /IV_Krantz.htm (2717 words)

	Keita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		This first feature-film by Dani Kouyaté is less the story of the legendary Mandingo King, Soundjata Keïta (alias Manding Diara, alias Sogolon Djata, alias Sogo Simbon Salaba), as it is about the complicated transmission of this heritage to the last descendant of the name, the young Mabo Keïta (a role played by Hamed Dicko).
		Interpret the juxtaposition of images, sounds, and (postsynchronised) narration in the opening sequence of the film (from credits to the appearance of the hunter at the griot's village): Identify and characterize the subject(s) of the narration and evaluate the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the sounds and images accompanying the narration.
		Kouyaté employs self-reflexive mechanisms (the film tells the story of the telling of a story) that enable him to juxtapose and compare/contrast many significant elements: i.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~fre353/Keita..html (775 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Afro Promo
		Since these films were created by whites grappling with the issues of the day, it's no surprise that some of these trailers — here, Edge of the City (1957) and Raisin in the Sun (1961) — are ponderously introduced by whites.
		In this sense, the films are not allowed to "speak for themselves" but must be framed, contextualized, and the images they contain ultimately controlled by white spokespersons.
		The low-budget Pam Grier films Foxy Brown (1974) and Black Mama, White Mama (1973), the latter a sex-role-reversal update of The Defiant Ones, show that at least in blaxploitation, fl women could be strong, even vicious.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /18/18_afro.html (1061 words)

	COMICON.com: GIANT SIZE MANDINGO # 2 INCREDIBLES Lives Up To The Hype!
		1) The film in question must have as it source material a work in which the main character or characters are considered to be in some way “super,” whether they possess powers as part of their own physical abilities or not.
		The Spider-Man movies and the first Superman films were winners because they took the time to let you get to know their heroes and that's very important for engendering viewer interest.
		I don't want to harp on this too too much, but whenever there is something involving heroism and super-powers that doesn't fit our particular definition of "superhero", I always see someone bring up how it is a repackaged superhero, as if everyone in the world bases their definition on Superman and the like.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003110 (1665 words)

	Digital History Resource Center
		Several short films dealt with the color line, among them The St. Louis Blues (1929); Duke Ellington's The Black and Tan Fantasy (1930) and his allegorical Symphony in Black (1934); and Jimmy Mordecai's fable of the fl migration from Southern farms to Northern cities, Yamacraw.
		Late in the war, the government commissioned or inspired short civilian films on fl soldiers and on the theme of equitable race relations, among them Don't Be a Sucker, It Happened in Springfield, and The House I Live In (which won an Oscar in 1947 as the best short film).
		Awaiting the arrival of this new wave of films were hundreds of derelict, cavernous downtown theaters, along with thousands of fl youths upon whom the Civil Rights Movement had had scant impact.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mintz/places/film-7c_blacks.html (4835 words)

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