Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. Castro. Introduction / Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon -- 'A vanishing race' The Native American films of J.K. Dixon / Caitlin McGrath -- 'Regardless of race, color, or creed': filming the Henry Street Settlement visiting Nurse Service, 1924-1933 / Tanya Goldman -- 'I'll see you in church': local films in African American communities, 1924-1962 / Martin L. Johnson -- The politics of vanishing celluloid: rediscovering Fort Rupert and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American ethnographic film / Colin Williamson -- Red star/black star: the early career of film editor Hortense 'Tee' Beveridge, 1948-1968 / Walter Forsberg -- Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican folk art, educational film, and Chicana/o art / Colin Gunckel -- Ever-widening horizons. The National Urban League and the pathologization of blackness. In a world for Jim and a morning for Jimmy / Michelle Kelley -- 'A touch of the Orient': negotiating Japanese American identity in the challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett -- 'I have my choice': behind every good man and the black queer subject in American nontheatrical film / Noah Tsika -- Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick -- 'A new sense of black awareness?' Navigating expectations in the black cop / Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper -- 'Don't be a segregationist: program films for everyone': the New York Public Library's film library and youth film workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton -- Teenage moviemaking in the lower East side: the Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974 / Noelle Griffis -- Ro-revus talks about race: South Carolina malnutrition and parasite films, 1968-1975 / Dan Streible -- Government-sponsored film and latinidad: Voice of la raza (1971) / Laura Isabel Serna -- Aestheticizing Asian American assimilation in the learning corporation of America's many Americans series (1970-1982) / Nadine Chan -- 'The right kind of family': memories to light and the home movie as racialized technology / Crystal Mun-hye Baik -- Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. Castro.
Summary:
Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to this book examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking. From filmic depictions of Native Americans and films by 1920s African American religious leaders to a government educational film about the unequal treatment of Latin American immigrants, these films portrayed--for various purposes and intentions--the lives of those who were mostly excluded from the commercial films being produced in Hollywood. This volume is more than an examination of a broad swath of neglected twentieth-century filmmaking; it is a reevaluation of basic assumptions about American film culture and the place of race within it.
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