Early Race Filmmaking in America

ISBN-13: 9780367873431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Barbara Lupack

Opis

This volume examines race filmmaking from numerous perspectives. By reanimating a critical but neglected period of early cinema—the years between the turn-of-the-century and 1930, the end of the silent film era—it provides a fascinating look at the efforts of early race film pioneers and offers a vibrant portrait of race and racial representatio

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Introduction

[Barbara Tepa Lupack]

1. "Put Together to Please a Colored Audience": Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and

Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

[Cara Caddoo]

2. The Birth of a Nation, Melodramas of Black and White, and Early Race Filmmaking

[Linda Williams]

3. The Ambitions of William Foster: Entrepreneurial Filmmaking at the Limits of Uplift Cinema

[Allyson Nadia Field ]

4. In-and-Out-of-Race: The Story of Noble Johnson

[Jane Gaines]

5. Evelyn Preer as a Vehicle of Victimization in Micheaux’s Films

[Charlene Regester]

6. Capitalizing on Race: White Producers of All-Black Cinema

[Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph.D.]

7. "Busting ’Em Wide Open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company

[Barbara Tepa Lupack]

8. Mediating Black Modernity: The Influence of the Race Press on Race Films

[Anna Everett]

9. The Lafayette Theater: Crucible of African-American Dramatic Arts

[Cary D. Wintz]

10. The Great Migration and the Rise of an Urban "Race Film" Culture

[Davarian L. Baldwin]

11. Race Cinema, The Transition to Sound, and Hollywood’s African-American-Cast Musicals

[Ryan Jay Friedman]

12. Preserving Race Films

[Jan-Christopher Horak]

O autorze

Barbara Tepa Lupack, former professor of English at St. John’s University and Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY/ESC, is author/editor of more than twenty-five books. Helm Fellow at the Lilly Library at Indiana University (2011) and Lehman Senior Scholar/Fellow at the Norman Rockwell Museum (2014-15), she is currently one of New York State’s inaugural "Public Scholars" (2015-2017).