Hollywood's African American Films : The Transition to Sound /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Friedman, Ryan Jay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Race in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Negro talking pictures
  • "Black became the fad" : white highbrow culture and Negro films
  • "The Negro invades Hollywood" : the great migration, the studios, and the performance of African American social mobility
  • On (with the) show : race and female bodily spectacle in early Hollywood sound film
  • The unhomely plantation : racial phantasmagoria in Hallelujah
  • Blackness without African Americans : Check and double check and the dialectics of cinematic blackface
  • Conclusion : "the required Negro motif" after the transition to sound.

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