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Migrating to the movies: cinema and Black urban modernity

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • Introduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History (page 1)
  • PART I. ONTO THE SCREEN
    • 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem (page 23)
    • 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema (page 50)
  • PART II. INTO THE AUDIENCE
    • 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity (page 93)
    • 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago (page 114)
    • 5. Along the "Scroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters (page 155)
  • PART III. BEHIND THE CAMERA
    • 6.Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking (page 189)
    • 7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity (page 219)
  • Conclusion (page 245)
  • Notes (page 251)
  • Bibliography (page 311)
  • Index (page 327)
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Published: c2005
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520233492 (paper)
  • 9780520233508 (hardcover)
  • 9780520936409 (ebook)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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