Nelson George

Nelson George

Nelson George (Brooklyn, 1º settembre 1957) è un regista, sceneggiatore, attore e scrittore statunitense.

Ha vinto due American Book Awards: nel 1993 per Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball e nel 1999 per Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X.

Entrò nel mondo del cinema del 1986, finanziando Lola Darling, uno dei primi film di Spike Lee.

Filmografia parziale

Attore

• Bastard Out of Carolina, regia di Anjelica Huston (1996)

Regista

• One Special Moment (film TV) (2001)
• Life Support (film TV) (2007)
• 4th Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors (film TV) (2007)
• Thriller 40 (documentario) (2023)

Sceneggiatore

• Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul (documentario) (1988)
• Strictly Business di Kevin Hooks e Rolando Hudson (1991)
• CB4 di Tamra Davis (1993)
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (serie TV) (1995)
• One Special Moment (2001)
• Life Support (2007)

Opere

• The Michael Jackson Story (1983)
• Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball (1992)
• Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture (1993)
• Blackface: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies (1994)
• Seduced (1996)
• One Woman Short (2001)
• Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God (2001)
• Show & Tell (2002)
• The Death of Rhythm and Blues (2003)
• Night Work: A Novel (2003)
• Hip Hop America (2005)
• Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes) (2005)
• Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (2007)
• The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul (2008)
• City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (2009)
• Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson (2010)
• The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (2011)
• The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style (2014)
• The Lost Treasures of R&B (2015)
• The Accidental Hunter (2015)
• The Darkest Hearts (2020)
• The Nelson George Mixtape Volume 1 (2021)

Altri progetti

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons

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Collegamenti esterni

• Sito ufficiale, su nelsondgeorge.net.
• (EN) Nelson George, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Nelson George, su IMDb, IMDb.com.