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Black Manhood on the Silent Screen
Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
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Gerald Butters's comprehensive study of the African American cinematic vision in silent film concentrates on works largely ignored by most contemporary film scholars: African American-produced and -directed films and white independent productions of all-black features. Using these "race movies" to explore the construction of masculine identity and the use of race in popular culture, he separates cinematic myth from historical reality: the myth of the Euro American-controlled cinematic portrayal of black men versus the actual black male experience.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Radicalized Masculinity and the Politics of Difference
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Chapter 2. The Preformed Image: Watermelon, Razors, and Chicken Thievery, 1896-1915
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Chapter 3. Black Cinematic Ruptures and Ole Uncle Tom
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Chapter 4. African-American Cinema and The Birth of a Nation
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Chapter 5. The Defense of Black Manhood on the Screen
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Chapter 6. Oscar Michaeux from Homestead to Lynch Mob
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Chapter 7. Within Our Gates
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Chapter 8. Blackface, White Independent All-Black Productions, and the Coming of Sound: The Late Silent Era, 1915-1931
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Conclusion
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Appendix: Two Silent African-American Film Synopses
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2002
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- 978-0-7006-1197-3 (hardcover)