Migrating to the Movies

Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-03-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:367
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520233492

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is Associate Professor of English, Cinema & Media Studies, and African & African American Studies at the University of Chicago.

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"With this book, Stewart establishes herself as the authority on early Black cinema. The historiography is meticulous, original and compelling. Stewart puts theory and history into productive conversation. An extremely important work." - Linda Williams, author of Playing the Race Card"

Innehållsförteckning

Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Nigger in the Woodpile: Black (In)Visibility in Film History Part One: Onto the Screen Chapter 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem Chapter 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema Part Two: Into the Audience Chapter 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity Chapter 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago Chapter 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters Part Three: Behind the Camera Chapter 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking Chapter 7 "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index