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6. Janet Maslin, ^^Tom Hanks as an Interloper in History,^'' New York Times, July 6,1994,
C9; David Ansen, ""Forrest Gump"" Newsweek, July 11, 1994, 50; and Leslie Felperin
Sharman, ""Forrest Gump,"" Sight and Sound, October, 1994 41.
7. J. Hoberman, ""Forrest Gump,"" Village Voice, July 12,1994,41.
8. David Sterritt, ""Forrest Gump,"" Christian Science Monitor, July 7, 1994, 10; and
Harry Pearson, Jr., ""Forrest Gump,"" Films in Review, November/December 1994,60.
9. Jonathan Romney, ""Forrest Gump,"" New Statesman & Society, October 14, 1994, 41;
and David Denby, ""Forrest Gump,"" New York, July 18, 1994, 50.
10. Forrest Gump, dir. Robert Zemeckis (Paramount Pictures, 1994), videocassette.
11. Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Black Manhood on the Silent Screen (Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 2002), 76. For greater detail on the controversy surrounding Birth o f a
Nation see Fred Silva, ed.. Focus on The Birth o f a Nation (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1971).
12. Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History
o f Blacks in American Films (New York: Continuum, 2001), 10.
13. Butters, Black Manhood on the Silent Screen, 85-90.
14. Shawn Brennan, ed., MagilVs Cinema Annual 1996 (New York: Gale Research,
1996), 400-401.
15. Mario Van Peebles, Ula Y. Taylor, and J. Tariko Lewis, Panther: A Pictorial History
o f the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film (New York: Newmarket Press,
1995), 140.
16. Ibid.
17. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, dir. Melvin Van Pebbles (Xenon Pictures,
2002), DVD.
18. Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks, 236.
19. “A Black Movie for White Audiences?,” New York Times, July 29,1971.
20. Huey P. Newton, “He Won’t Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of Sweet
Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,"" Black Panther, January 19,1971.
21. Lerone Beimett, Jr., “The Emancipation Orgasm: Sweetback in Wonderland,” Ebony,
26 (September 1971), 106-116.
22. For background information on the BPP leadership see David Hilliard and Lewis
Cole, This Side o f Glory: The Autobiography o f David Hilliard and the Story o f the Black
Panther Party (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993); Elaine Brown, A Taste o f
Power: A Black Woman's Story (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992); Bobby Seale, Seize
the Time: The Story o f the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Baltimore: Black
Classic Press, 1991); Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (New York: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1973); and Elridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York: Dell Publishing,
1970).
23. Panther, dir. Mario Van Peeblei (PolyOram Video, 1995), videoeaiBOtta.
24. Variety, May 2, 1995; and Michael Eric Dyson, Between God and Qangsta Rap:
Bearing Witness to Black Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 114.
25. MagilVs Cinema Annual 1996, 400; and Hilliard quoted in Peebles, Taylor, and
Lewis, Panther, 174.
26. Rita Kempley, ""Panther. History Over Easy,” Washington Post, May 3, 1995, Cl;
and Janet Maslin, “How the Black Panthers Came to Be, Sort Of,” New York Times, May
3,1995, C18.
27. Richard Corliss, ""Panther,"" Time, May 15, 1995, 73.
28. Thelma Adams, ""Panther,"" New York Post, May 5, 1993, 31.