Making a Promised Land : : Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film / / Paula J. Massood.
Making a Promised Land examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 31 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: The Era of the New Negro: African American Politics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Harlem
- 1. African American Aesthetics and the City: Picturing the Black Bourgeoisie in New York
- 2. Heaven and Hell in Harlem: Urban Aesthetics for a Renaissance People
- 3. Delinquents in the Making: Harlem’s Representational Turn toward “Marketable Shock”
- 4. Gangster’s Paradise: Drugs and Crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack Cinema
- 5. Echoes of a Renaissance: Harlem’s Nostalgic Turn
- Conclusion: Making and Remaking a Promised Land: Harlem’s Continuing Revisions
- Notes
- INDEX