num_pages: 454
description: Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.
language: English
title: Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
titlecomplete: Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
genres: Theory, Theatre, Nonfiction, Film, Race, History
ratings_count: 36
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press