Black City Cinema African American Urban Experiences in Film

Name: Black City Cinema African American Urban Experiences in Film
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ISBN: 9781592130030

ISBN-10: 1592130038

ISBN-13: 9781592130030

Edition: 2003

Authors: Paula Massood

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This work shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the 20th century.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 1/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen



The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals



Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era



Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond



Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape



Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema



Taking the A-Train: The City, the Train, and Migration in Spike Lee's Clockers


Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s


Notes


Index