Black manhood on the silent screen
By: Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
Series: Culture America
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: African American men in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism
Description: "Black Manhood on the Silent Screen is unique in that it takes contemporary and original film theory, applies it to the distinctive body of African American independent films in the silent era, and relates the meaning of these films to larger political, social, and intellectual events in American society.

By showing how both white and black men have defined their own sense of manhood through cinema, it examines the intersection of race and gender in the movies and offers a deft interweaving of film theory, American history, and film history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Racialized Masculinity and the Politics of Difference; title: 2. The Preformed Image: Watermelon, Razors, and Chicken Thievery, 1896-1915; title: 3. Black Cinematic Ruptures and Ole Uncle Tom; title: 4. African-American Cinema and The Birth of a Nation; title: 5. The Defense of Black Manhood on the Screen; title: 6. Oscar Micheaux: From Homestead to Lynch Mob; title: 7. Within Our Gates; title: 8. Blackface, White Independent All-Black Productions, and the Coming of Sound: The Late Silent Era, 1915-1931; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix: Two Silent African-American Film Synopses; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.