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Black city cinema: African American urban experiences in film

Paula J. Massood
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen (page 1)
  • 1 The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals (page 11)
  • 2 Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era (page 45)
  • 3 Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond (page 79)
  • 4 Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape (page 117)
  • 5 Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema (page 145)
  • 6 Taking the A-Train: The City, the Train, and Migration in Spike lee's Clockers (page 175)
  • Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s (page 207)
  • Notes (page 227)
  • Index (page 257)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AAR 37.2/3 (Summer-Autumn. 2003): 445-447 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512333
FQ 57.4 (Summer. 2004): 48-49 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2004.57.4.48
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Published: 2003
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781592130030 (paper)
  • 9781592130023 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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