Making a Promised Land : Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film /

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In this book, the author examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the course of the twentieth century. She analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African A...

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Autor principal: Massood, Paula J., 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
African American neighborhoods.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Quartiers noirs americains > New York (État) > New York.
African American neighborhoods > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
New York (State) > New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The era of the new Negro : African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth-century Harlem
  • African American aesthetics and the city : picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York
  • Heaven and hell in Harlem : urban aesthetics for a renaissance people
  • Delinquents in the making : Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock"
  • Gangster's paradise : drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema
  • Echoes of a renaissance : Harlem's nostalgic turn
  • Conclusion : making and re-making a promised land : Harlem's continuing revisions.

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