Envisioning freedom : cinema and the building of modern Black life / Cara Caddoo.

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Caddoo, Cara, 1978-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674735590
0674735595

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning freedomDDC classification:

791.43/652996073 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.N4 C33 2014eb

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Contents:

Introduction: Picturing freedom -- Exhibitions of faith and fellowship -- Cinema and the god given right to play -- Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city -- Monuments of progress -- The fight over fight pictures -- Mobilizing an envisioned community -- Race films and the transnational frontier -- Conclusion: Picturing the future.

Summary: [Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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[Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans.

In English.

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