Ebook269 pages6 hours
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences In Film
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this ebook
In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood 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 twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood 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 and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she 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 hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film.
Related to Black City Cinema
Related ebooks
Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Blaxploitation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Staging Migrations toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPretty: Film and the Decorative Image Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfrican American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackness Is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarlem: People, Power and Politics 1900-1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPostmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthestics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouthscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Popular Culture & Media Studies For You
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Element Encyclopedia of 20,000 Dreams: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Communion: The Female Search for Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gamer's Bucket List: The 50 Video Games to Play Before You Die Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thick: And Other Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5And The Mountains Echoed Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Regarding the Pain of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Propaganda and the Public Mind Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Butts: A Backstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Black City Cinema
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Black City Cinema - Paula Massood
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1