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Hollywood Be Thy Name : African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949.
From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Jud...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity. Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files, censorship recor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (357 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index. Includes filmography: pages 239-240. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940666 0520940660 9780520227743 0520227743 9780520251007 0520251008 9786612360237 6612360232 |