Migrating to the movies
Subtitle: cinema and Black urban modernity
By: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: African Americans in the motion picture industry.; African Americans in motion pictures.; Motion picture audiences -- United States.; African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Description: The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of African Americans to the urban 'land of hope'. Discussing early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, this text presents a look at the early relationships between African Americans and cinema.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.
Table of contents: title: A nigger in the woodpile : Black (in)visibility in film history; title: "To misrepresent a helpless race" : the Black image problem; title: Mixed colors : riddles of blackness in preclassical cinema; title: "Negroes laughing at themselves"? Black spectatorship and the performance of urban modernity; title: "Some thing to see up here all the time" : moviegoing and Black urban leisure in Chicago; title: Along the "stroll" : Chicago's Black Belt movie theaters; title: Reckless rovers versus ambitious negroes : migration, patriotism, and the politics of genre in early African American filmmaking; title: "We were never immigrants" : Oscar Micheaux and the reconstruction of Black American identity.