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Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity /
The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A nigger in the woodpile, or Black (in)visibility in film history
- "To misrepresent a helpless race" : the Black image problem
- Mixed colors : riddles of blackness in preclassical cinema
- "Negroes laughing at themselves"? Black spectatorship and the performance of urban modernity
- "Some thing to see up here all the time" : moviegoing and Black urban leisure in Chicago
- Along the "stroll" : Chicago's Black Belt movie theaters
- Reckless rovers versus ambitious negroes : migration, patriotism, and the politics of genre in early African American filmmaking
- "We were never immigrants" : Oscar Micheaux and the reconstruction of Black American identity.