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Author(s): Jacqueline Stewart
ISBN(s): 9781417585144, 1417585145
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.02 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1417585145 
ISBN 13: 9781417585144
Author: Jacqueline Stewart

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.

Migrating to the Movies Cinema and Black Urban Modernity 1st Table of contents:

PART I. ONTO THE SCREEN
1. “To Misrepresent a Helpless Race”: The Black Image Problem
2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema
PART II. INTO THE AUDIENCE
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
PART III. BEHIND THE CAMERA
6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Ear
7. “We Were Never Immigrants”: Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity

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