LEADER 03094nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910807191503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-86437-1 010 $a0-8135-5080-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000084253 035 $a(EBL)858953 035 $a(OCoLC)775872924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606417 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379749 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606417 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582302 035 $a(PQKB)11536613 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC858953 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16161 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL858953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533633 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000084253 100 $a20101005d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHollywood's African American films $ethe transition to sound /$fRyan Jay Friedman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-5048-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $a In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a ""vogue"" for ""Negro films."" ""Hollywood's African American Films"" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of ""talking pictures"" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white ""Broadway"" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional film 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace in motion pictures 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aRace in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43 676 $a791.43652996073 700 $aFriedman$b Ryan Jay$01128056 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807191503321 996 $aHollywood's African American films$94087033 997 $aUNINA