03599nam 2200565Ia 450 991078337370332120231005181513.01-280-43908-40-19-972787-21-60129-568-5(CKB)1000000000028478(StDuBDS)AH24087496(SSID)ssj0000246823(PQKBManifestationID)11192233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246823(PQKBWorkID)10188577(PQKB)10926911(MiAaPQ)EBC253377(Au-PeEL)EBL253377(CaPaEBR)ebr10085376(CaONFJC)MIL43908(OCoLC)935229202(EXLCZ)99100000000002847820770217e19931977 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSlow fade to black the Negro in American film, 1900-1942 /Thomas CrippsNew York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (399 pages) 99 halftonesCover title: The Negro in American film, 1900-1942.0-19-502130-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Slow Fade to Black is a history of US African-American accomplishment in film from the earliest movies through World War II. It explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South.Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South: the "lost cause" aspect of the Civil War, the stately mansions and gracious ladies of the antebellum South, the "happy" slaves singing in the fields. Cripps shows how these characterizations culminated in the blatantly racist attitudes of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and how this film inspired the N.A.A.C.P. to campaign vigorously--and successfully--for change. While the period of the 1920's to 1940's was one replete with Hollywood stereotypes (blacks most often appeared as domestics or "natives," or were portrayed in shiftless, cowardly "Stepin Fetchit" roles), there was also an attempt at independent black production--on the whole unsuccessful. But with the coming of World War II, increasing pressures for a wider use of blacks in films, and calls for more equitable treatment, African-Americans did begin to receive more sympathetic roles, such as that of Sam, the piano player in the 1942 classic Casablanca. A lively, thorough history of African-Americans in the movies, Slow Fade to Black is also a perceptive social commentary on evolving racial attitudes in this country during the first four decades of the twentieth century.African Americans in motion picturesAfrican Americans in the motion picture industryAfrican Americans in motion pictures.African Americans in the motion picture industry.791.43/028/0922Cripps Thomas1088364MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783373703321Slow fade to black3822825UNINA