Clyde R. Taylor (born 1931) is an American writer and film scholar, who is an emeritus professor at

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. His scholarship and commentary often focuses on

black film Black film is a classification of film that has a broad definition relating to the film involving participation and/or representation of black people. The definition may involve the film having a black cast, a black crew, a black director, a blac ...

Career

Taylor is a contributor to journals such as '' Black Film Review'' and ''

Jump Cut A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time. Camera positions of the subje ...

''. He coined the term ' L.A. Rebellion' for the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers movement. He co-wrote the documentary film, '' Midnight Ramble'', and is the author of ''The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract – Film and Literature'' (

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Press, 1998).

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