Making a promised land
Subtitle: Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film
By: Paula J. Massood
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780813555881; 9780813555874; 9780813555898
Subjects: In motion pictures; Harlem (New York, N.Y.); African American neighborhoods; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem; title: African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York; title: Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people; title: Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock"; title: Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema; title: Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn; title: Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.