Hollywood's African American films [electronic resource] : the transition to sound / Ryan Jay Friedman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Ryan Jay
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : Negro talking pictures
  • "Black became the fad" : white highbrow culture and Negro films
  • "The Negro invades Hollywood" : the great migration, the studios, and the performance of African American social mobility
  • On (with the) show : race and female bodily spectacle in early Hollywood sound film
  • The unhomely plantation : racial phantasmagoria in Hallelujah
  • Blackness without African Americans : Check and double check and the dialectics of cinematic blackface
  • Conclusion : "the required Negro motif" after the transition to sound.