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Black city cinema : African American urban experiences in film /

In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the De...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Massood, Paula J., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Series:Culture and the moving image.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antebellum idyll and Hollywood's black-cast musicals
  • Harlem is heaven: city motifs in race films from the early sound era
  • Cotton in the city: the black ghetto, blaxploitation, and beyond
  • Welcome to crooklyn: Spike Lee and the rearticulation of the Black urbanscape
  • Out of the ghetto, into the hood: changes in the construction of Black city cinema
  • Taking the a-train, the city, the train, and migration in Spike Lee's clockers.