Migrating to the movies cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.
| Author/creator | Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxiii, 343 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| 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. |
| General note | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Migrating to the movies Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. 0520233506 (alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696365 |
| ISBN | 9780520936409 ebook |
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