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Good book on Black Film worldwide!.......2000-12-25
An informative anthology covers black film from Brazil, the Caribbean, Black Britain, Paris, the United States as well as continental Africa and FESPACO, (the 30+ year old continuous film festival in Burkina Faso, West Africa). A great read, also good for academic study. There is no book like this one, for diasporic film coverage.
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Title: Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality. (book reviews)
Author: Cliff Thompson
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Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: v22
Issue: n4
Page: p66(2)
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I have to say that Fabozzi has the formula down pat--he gets "guest writers" to contribute various chapters to this book and does very little writing himself. The result is a disjointed, sometimes repetitious, other times incomplete volume. This book focuses extensively on agency mortgages--Ginnies, Fannies, Freddies--and speaks only a bit to the Alt-A, subprime and more exotic privately-originated mortgage markets. To call this book comprehensive would be a lie. Although this book was highly recommended to me by a PM at a traditional long-only manager, I can only guess that previous versions were better, because this one was certainly a high-priced primer that still left many areas of the market uncovered. Areas that are glaringly missing (beyond non-agency topics) include the role of hedge funds, loss mitigation/foreclosure processes, more info on EPDs, and the erosion of lending standards/rise of the subprime market. I think that a chapter on common mortgage origination fraud issues is also merited.
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