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Envisioning freedom : cinema and the building of modern Black life / Cara Caddoo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter eBook-Paket GeschichtePublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674735590
  • 0674735595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning freedomDDC classification:
  • 791.43/652996073 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 C33 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Picturing freedom -- Exhibitions of faith and fellowship -- Cinema and the god given right to play -- Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city -- Monuments of progress -- The fight over fight pictures -- Mobilizing an envisioned community -- Race films and the transnational frontier -- Conclusion: Picturing the future.
Summary: [Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Picturing freedom -- Exhibitions of faith and fellowship -- Cinema and the god given right to play -- Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city -- Monuments of progress -- The fight over fight pictures -- Mobilizing an envisioned community -- Race films and the transnational frontier -- Conclusion: Picturing the future.

Print version record.

[Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans.

In English.

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