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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Caddoo, Cara (1978-....)
Titre(s) : Envisioning freedom [Texte imprimé] : cinema and the building of modern Black life / Cara Caddoo
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-280) and index
Viewing turn-of-the century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning
Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era
of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at
the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective--if fraught--culture
of freedom. In this study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the
1890s to the 1920s. Across the South and Midwest, moving pictures presented in churches,
lodges, and schools raised money and created shared social experiences for black urban
communities. As migrants moved northward, bound for Chicago and New York, cinema moved
with them. Along these routes, ministers and reformers, preaching messages of racial
uplift, used moving pictures as an enticement to attract followers. But as it gained
popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Facing a losing competition with
movie houses, once-supportive ministers denounced the evils of the "colored theater."
Onscreen images sparked arguments over black identity and the meaning of freedom.
In 1910, when boxing champion Jack Johnson became the world's first black movie star,
representation in film vaulted to the center of black concerns about racial progress.
Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations
which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans. In 1915, these
ideas both led to the creation of an industry that produced "race films" by and for
black audiences and sparked the first mass black protest movement of the twentieth
century
Sujet(s) : Films noirs américains
Cinéma -- États-Unis -- 1895-1929
Sociologie de la réception
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 52996 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes des Africains
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674368057. - ISBN 0674368053
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444136082
Notice n° :
FRBNF44413608
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