Free Download Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, "Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity"
English | 2005 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0520233506, 0520233492 | PDF | 5,1 mb
The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways.