| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Migrating to the movies/ Jacqueline Najuma Stewart. |
| Reminder of title: |
cinema and Black urban modernity / |
| Author: |
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, |
| Published: |
Berkeley :University of California Press, : c2005., |
| Description: |
xxiii, 343 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. [ii]. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
African Americans in motion pictures. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129022An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417585145 (electronic bk.) |