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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Cripps |
ISBN: | 0195021304 9780195021301 |
OCLC Number: | 27266230 |
Description: | xi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | The unformed image: the Afro-American in early American movies -- The year of The birth of a nation -- Two early strides toward a black cinema -- Black and white Hollywood -- The silent Hollywood negro -- Uncle Tom was a "bad nigger" -- The black underground -- Two cheers for the "Indies" -- "Better than white voices" -- Black music, white movies -- The Hollywood negro faces the great depression -- Meanwhile far away from the movie colony -- The politics of art. |
Series Title: | Oxford paperbacks. |
Responsibility: | Thomas Cripps. |
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"Brilliant book, well researched, good read."-Micheal Pounds, California State University at Long Beach "A breathtakingly detailed cultural history. Key to understanding one of the most profound institutional methods by which racial misconceptions were fostered, and yet somehow used as a bridge toward positive accomplishment."-James Robert Saunders, Purdue University "Crisply-written, provocative, and highly imaginative, Slow Fade to Black is a solid achievement as a history of blacks in early film. It stands as the definitive work on black film in that era, and I expect my students will love it."-Robert A. Pratt, University of Georgia Read more...


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