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african american actors
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america
american entertainment
american history
Author_Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
black americans
black audiences
black film culture
black urban life
black urban modernity
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chicago
cinema
cinema and culture
cinematic representations
early films
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film history
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influence of cinema
migration
modern history
movie theaters
nonfiction
northern migration
oscar micheaux
race films
silent movie era
urban populations
urban setting
Product details
- ISBN 9780520233492
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is Associate Professor of English, Cinema & Media Studies, and African & African American Studies at the University of Chicago.
