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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Massood, Paula J., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1900-1999
African American neighborhoods > New York (State) > New York.
Quartiers noirs américains > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
African American neighborhoods.
Motion pictures.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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