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Author:

Caddoo, Cara, 1978-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Motion pictures--United States--Distribution.
Motion picture audiences--United States.
Race films.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures--Distribution.
Race films.
United States.
Schwarze.
USA.
Filmschaffender.
Schwarze.
Gesellschaftsleben.
Kulturleben.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0674368053 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780674368057 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)875999879

LCCN:

2014005703

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)