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Migrating to the movies [[electronic resource] ] : cinema and Black urban modernity / / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart



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Autore: Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Migrating to the movies [[electronic resource] ] : cinema and Black urban modernity / / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/652996073
Soggetto topico: African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures
Motion picture audiences - United States
African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: african american actors
african american directors
african americans
america
american entertainment
american history
black americans
black audiences
black film culture
black urban life
black urban modernity
chicago
cinema and culture
cinema
cinematic representations
early films
film history
illustrated
influence of cinema
migration
modern history
movie theaters
nonfiction
northern migration
oscar micheaux
race films
silent movie era
urban populations
urban setting
Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. [ii].
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History -- 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem -- 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema -- 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity -- 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago -- 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters -- 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking -- 7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Migrating to the movies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59734-750-7
1-282-76265-6
9786612762659
0-520-93640-X
1-4175-8514-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783317603321
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Serie: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.