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Hollywood Be Thy Name : African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949
From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Jud...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity. Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files, censorship recor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (355 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780520940666 |