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Author:

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxiii, 343 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Motion picture audiences--United States.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780520233492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520233492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520233508 (alk. paper)
0520233506 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004016541

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)