Envisioning Freedom : Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life /

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Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black...

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Autor principal: Caddoo, Cara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Temas:
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Motion picture audiences > United States.
Motion pictures > Distribution > United States.
Motion pictures > United States > Distribution.
Race films > United States.
Race films.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Picturing Freedom
  • 1. Exhibitions of Faith and Fellowship
  • 2. Cinema and the God- Given Right to Play
  • 3. Colored Th eaters in the Jim Crow City
  • 4. Monuments of Progress
  • 5. The Fight over Fight Pictures
  • 6. Mobilizing an Envisioned Community
  • 7. Race Films and the Transnational Frontier
  • Conclusion: Picturing the Future
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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