LEADER 03599nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910783373703321 005 20231005181513.0 010 $a1-280-43908-4 010 $a0-19-972787-2 010 $a1-60129-568-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028478 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087496 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246823 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246823 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188577 035 $a(PQKB)10926911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC253377 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL253377 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085376 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43908 035 $a(OCoLC)935229202 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028478 100 $a20770217e19931977 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSlow fade to black $ethe Negro in American film, 1900-1942 /$fThomas Cripps 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (399 pages) $c99 halftones 300 $aCover title: The Negro in American film, 1900-1942. 311 0 $a0-19-502130-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $aSlow 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. 330 $bSet 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry. 676 $a791.43/028/0922 700 $aCripps$b Thomas$01088364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783373703321 996 $aSlow fade to black$93822825 997 $aUNINA