Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences In Film (Culture And The Moving Image)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592130038 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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She illuminates many other films, about which she writes with easy familiarity and complete authority."-J. "Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal "the city" as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films. Highly recommended for academic libraries and large public libraries with a strong film or African American collection."-Library Journal "Thanks to Massood's lively writing style, Black City Cinema is a good read. It is also an important contribution to the field of film studies."-Film Quarterly "emerges as an important resource it is an engaging read, pulling together its various strands of analysis in incisive prose."-Cineaste "Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse."-Ethnic and Racial Studies "Examines how African Americans and the urban environment have been p
Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, it considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the race films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and the hood films as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the 20th century.. 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. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. The text probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical an