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Author Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-

Title Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 343 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Page [ii].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and index.
Contents A nigger in the woodpile, or Black (in)visibility in film history -- "To misrepresent a helpless race" : the Black image problem -- Mixed colors : riddles of blackness in preclassical cinema -- "Negroes laughing at themselves"? Black spectatorship and the performance of urban modernity -- "Some thing to see up here all the time" : moviegoing and Black urban leisure in Chicago -- Along the "stroll" : Chicago's Black Belt movie theaters -- Reckless rovers versus ambitious negroes : migration, patriotism, and the politics of genre in early African American filmmaking -- "We were never immigrants" : Oscar Micheaux and the reconstruction of Black American identity.
Summary 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Motion picture audiences -- United States.
Motion picture audiences.
United States.
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Migrations.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- Migrating to the movies. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520233506 0520233492 (DLC) 2004016541 (OCoLC)55962215
ISBN 9780520936409 (electronic book)
052093640X (electronic book)
1597347507 (electronic book)
9781597347501 (electronic book)
9780520233508 (alkaline paper)
0520233506 (alkaline paper)
9780520233492 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520233492 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520233506 (alkaline paper)
0520233492 (paperback ; alkaline paper)