Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.
| Author/creator | Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| 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 |
| Subjects |
| 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) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9.B585 S74 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |