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Gerald R. Butters Jr. (born 1948) is an professor of history at Aurora University and an author who has written about film history including censorship and African American cinema.

He gave a presentation on black women in the films of Oscar Micheaux.[1] He has written articles in Literature/Film Quarterly and the Journal of Multimedia History.[2] In 2019 he gave a speech on the Civil War and Historical Memory.[3] C-Span aired footage of him at the Printers Row Lit Fest in 2022.[4] He has written article for Flow Journal.[5]

Daniel Bernardi reviewed his book on Black Manhood in early American films.[6] It was also reviewed by Shawn St. Jean.[7] Whitney Strub reviewed hi book on film censorship in Kansas.[8] His book on the Chicago Loop "combines historical fact with lively personal accounts," according to a NewCityLit review.[9]

Books

  • Black Manhood on the Silent Screen University of Kansas Press (2002)[10][11]
  • Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966 (2007)
  • From Sweetback to Superfly: Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop (2015)
  • Beyond Blaxploitation (2016), co-editor[12][13]

References

  1. ^ "» Centering Black Women: The Silent Films of Oscar Micheauxby Gerald R. Butters, Jr".
  2. ^ "Gerald R. Butters Jr".
  3. ^ "Main Stage: Gerald Butters, PhD". alumni.aurora.edu.
  4. ^ "Gerald Butters | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  5. ^ University, Gerald R. Butters Aurora (April 13, 2013). "Gerald R. Butters Aurora University – Flow".
  6. ^ Bernardi, Daniel (December 1, 2003). "Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. By Gerald R. Butters Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xviii, 270 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1197-5.)". Journal of American History. 90 (3): 1056–1057. doi:10.2307/3660973 – via Silverchair.
  7. ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512332
  8. ^ Strub, Whitney (July 2, 2009). "Gerald R. Butters Jr. Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. vxi + 348. $44.95 (ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3)". Law and History Review. 27 (2): 469–470. doi:10.1017/S0738248000002169 – via Cambridge University Press.
  9. ^ Nealie, Toni (November 29, 2015). "Race and the Silver Screen in Chicago's Loop: Gerald R. Butters on his new book, "From Sweetback to Superfly" | Newcity Lit".
  10. ^ Butters, Gerald R. (January 2, 2002). "Black Manhood on the Silent Screen". University Press of Kansas – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Black Manhood on the Silent Screen".
  12. ^ "Beyond Blaxploitation".
  13. ^ "Author".
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