Envisioning freedom : cinema and the building of modern Black life /

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[Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caddoo, Cara, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Schwarze ...
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Motion pictures > United States > Distribution.
Motion picture audiences > United States.
Race films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures > Distribution.
Schwarze > Motiv
USA > Motiv
Filmschaffender
Gesellschaftsleben
Kulturleben
Svarta på film, USA.
Svarta i filmindustrin, USA.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Picturing freedom
  • Exhibitions of faith and fellowship
  • Cinema and the god given right to play
  • Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city
  • Monuments of progress
  • The fight over fight pictures
  • Mobilizing an envisioned community
  • Race films and the transnational frontier
  • Conclusion: Picturing the future.

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