| Description |
xxiii, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and index. |
| Contents |
A nigger in the woodpile : 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. |
| Subject |
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
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African Americans in the motion picture industry. |
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African Americans in motion pictures.
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African Americans in motion pictures. |
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Motion picture audiences -- United States.
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Motion picture audiences. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Migrations. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0520233492 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520233506 alkaline paper |
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