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Author Friedman, Ryan Jay.

Title Hollywood's African American films : the transition to sound / Ryan Jay Friedman.

Publication Info. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; c h a p t e r 1; c h a p t e r 2; c h a p t e r 3; c h a p t e r 4; c h a p t e r 5; Conclusion; Notes; Index;
Summary 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 a.
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Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Race in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813550480
ISBN 9780813550800 (electronic book)
0813550807 (electronic book)
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9781283864374
0813550483
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