Hollywood's African American films
Subtitle: the transition to sound
By: Ryan Jay Friedman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780813550480; 9780813550497
Subjects: Motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Race in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Negro talking pictures; title: "Black became the fad" : white highbrow culture and Negro films; title: "The Negro invades Hollywood" : the great migration, the studios, and the performance of African American social mobility; title: On (with the) show : race and female bodily spectacle in early Hollywood sound film; title: The unhomely plantation : racial phantasmagoria in Hallelujah; title: Blackness without African Americans : Check and double check and the dialectics of cinematic blackface; title: Conclusion : "the required Negro motif" after the transition to sound.