Santi Elijah Holley — Beg Borrow Steal: The Visionary Art of Melvin Van Peebles and the Rise of Independent Black Cinema — at Conn Ave

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An essential history of modern Black cinema, as led by avant garde filmmaker, director, novelist, composer, and playwright Melvin Van Peebles. Beg Borrow Steal https://politics prose.com/book/9780063383036 , a title inspired by Black artists’ make a way out of no way ethos, is a stirring and remarkable deep dive into Black independent film and culture, as modeled by raconteur and iconoclast Melvin Van Peebles. Award winning writer Santi Elijah Holley enriches the extraordinary history with interviews from today’s most innovative Black independent filmmakers and actors, such as Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Van Peebles’s published and unpublished manuscripts, critical reviews, analyses, and reflections. Independent Black artists across a…

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