Envisioning freedom
Subtitle: cinema and the building of modern Black life
By: Cara Caddoo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780674368057
Subjects: Motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; African Americans in motion pictures; Social life and customs; Race films; Distribution; Motion picture audiences; African Americans
Description: 294 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Picturing freedom; title: Exhibitions of faith and fellowship; title: Cinema and the god given right to play; title: Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city; title: Monuments of progress; title: The fight over fight pictures; title: Mobilizing an envisioned community; title: Race films and the transnational frontier; title: Conclusion: Picturing the future.