Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity

Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

Author/creator	Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-
Format	Electronic, Book, and Print
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Description	xxiii, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	African Americans in the motion picture industry. African Americans in motion pictures. Motion picture audiences--United States. African Americans--Migrations --History --20th century.

Contents	A nigger in the woodpile : Black (in)visibility in film history -- "To misrepresent a helpless race" : the Black image problem -- Mixed colors : riddles of blackness in preclassical cinema -- "Negroes laughing at themselves"? Black spectatorship and the performance of urban modernity -- "Some thing to see up here all the time" : moviegoing and Black urban leisure in Chicago -- Along the "stroll" : Chicago's Black Belt movie theaters -- Reckless rovers versus ambitious negroes : migration, patriotism, and the politics of genre in early African American filmmaking -- "We were never immigrants" : Oscar Micheaux and the reconstruction of Black American identity.
Local note	Little-346501--305131051871Z
General note	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2004016541
ISBN	0520233506 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780520233508 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0520233492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780520233492 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PN1995.9.B585 S74 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold