Making Movies Black - The Hollywood Message Movie From World War II to the Civil Rights Era

Klappentext Cripps's Slow to Fade To Black: The Negro In American Film, 1900-1942, is considered the basic work on blacks' involvement in film, both in Hollywood and outside it. Making Movies Black continues the story up into the 1950s. It discusses the greater attention to black life in films of the early war years, including the all-black Cabin in The Sky, indicates the difficult time black leaders had with Hollywood studios in bringing pressure for better depictions of blacks on screen, describes the discovery of race-related subjects in such postwar films as Pinky and Intruder In The Dust, and depicts the rise of black stars like Sidney Poitier in Hollywood. As in Slow Fade to Black, these events are put into a broader social context. Zusammenfassung Cripps's Slow to Fade To Black: The Negro In American Film, 1900-1942, is considered the basic work on blacks' involvement in film, both in Hollywood and outside it.Making Movies Black continues the story up into the 1950s. It discusses the greater attention to black life in films of the early war years, including the all-black Cabin in The Sky, indicates the difficult time black leaders had with Hollywood studios in bringing pressure for better depictions of blacks on screen, describes the discovery of race-related subjects in such postwar films as Pinky and Intruder in the Dust, and depicts the rise of black stars like Sidney Poitier in Hollywood. As in Slow Fade to Black, these events are put into a broader social context.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Cripps, Thomas (Professor of History Cripps
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1993
• EAN: 9780195076691
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507669-1
• No. of pages: 399
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; USA, Ethnic Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Black & Asian Studies, Film Theory & Criticism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Film history, theory or criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General