LEADER 05426nam 2201117Ia 450 001 996248195603316 005 20240410071120.0 010 $a1-59734-750-7 010 $a1-282-76265-6 010 $a9786612762659 010 $a0-520-93640-X 010 $a1-4175-8514-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936409 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030695 035 $a(EBL)227310 035 $a(OCoLC)58728613 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000202833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10255133 035 $a(PQKB)11374227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227310 035 $a(DE-B1597)519657 035 $a(OCoLC)1100547289 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936409 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10076811 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276265 035 $a(dli)HEB08111 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009841829 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030695 100 $a20040715d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMigrating to the movies $ecinema and Black urban modernity /$fJacqueline Najuma Stewart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 225 1 $aThe George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999. 300 $a"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. [ii]. 311 0 $a0-520-23349-2 311 0 $a0-520-23350-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History --$t1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem --$t2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema --$t3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity --$t4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago --$t5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters --$t6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking --$t7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution. 410 0$aGeorge Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. 606 $aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aMotion picture audiences$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xMigrations$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aafrican american actors. 610 $aafrican american directors. 610 $aafrican americans. 610 $aamerica. 610 $aamerican entertainment. 610 $aamerican history. 610 $ablack americans. 610 $ablack audiences. 610 $ablack film culture. 610 $ablack urban life. 610 $ablack urban modernity. 610 $achicago. 610 $acinema and culture. 610 $acinema. 610 $acinematic representations. 610 $aearly films. 610 $afilm history. 610 $aillustrated. 610 $ainfluence of cinema. 610 $amigration. 610 $amodern history. 610 $amovie theaters. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $anorthern migration. 610 $aoscar micheaux. 610 $arace films. 610 $asilent movie era. 610 $aurban populations. 610 $aurban setting. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion picture audiences 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMigrations$xHistory 676 $a791.43/652996073 700 $aStewart$b Jacqueline Najuma$f1970-$01013488 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248195603316 996 $aMigrating to the movies$92357065 997 $aUNISA