Envisioning Freedom : : Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life / / Cara Caddoo.
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...
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Caddoo, Cara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Envisioning Freedom : Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life / Cara Caddoo. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (280 p.) : 8 halftones, 3 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Picturing Freedom -- 1. Exhibitions of Faith and Fellowship -- 2. Cinema and the God- Given Right to Play -- 3. Colored Th eaters in the Jim Crow City -- 4. Monuments of Progress -- 5. The Fight over Fight Pictures -- 6. Mobilizing an Envisioned Community -- 7. Race Films and the Transnational Frontier -- Conclusion: Picturing the Future -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) African Americans in motion pictures. African Americans in the motion picture industry. African Americans Social life and customs. Motion picture audiences United States. Motion pictures Distribution United States. Motion pictures United States Distribution. Race films United States. Race films. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674368057 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735590 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735590 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674735590.jpg |
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