Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- "Put together to please a colored audience": Black churches, motion pictures, and migration at the turn of the twentieth century / Cara Caddoo -- The birth of a nation, melodramas of Black and white, and early race filmmaking / Linda Williams -- The ambitions of William Foster: entrepreneurial filmmaking at the limits of Uplift Cinema / Allyson Nadia Field -- In-and-out-of-race: the story of Noble Johnson / Jane Gaines -- Evelyn Preer as a vehicle of victimization in Micheaux's films / Charlene Regester -- Capitalizing on race: white producers of all-Black cinema / Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph. D. -- "Busting 'em wide open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Mediating Black modernity: the influence of the race press on race films / Anna Everett -- The Lafayette Theater: crucible of African-American dramatic arts / Cary D. Wintz -- The great migration and the rise of an urban "race film" culture / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Race cinema, the transition to sound, and Hollywood's African-American-cast musicals / Ryan Jay Friedman -- Preserving race films / Jan-Christopher Horak.
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