Fade In, Crossroads - A History of the Southern Cinema

Zusatztext [A] comprehensive study of the cinema of the American South...meticulously researched. Informationen zum Autor Robert Jackson is an James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where he is also affiliated with programs in Film Studies and African American Studies. Specializing in cultural studies of the modern United States, he works at the intersection of literature, film and media studies, and social history. Among his prior publications is Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation (2005). Klappentext Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between black and white southerners and films from the silent era to midcentury. It illustrates how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with that of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation. Zusammenfassung Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between black and white southerners and films from the silent era to midcentury. It illustrates how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with that of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation.

Product details

• Authors: ROBERT JACKSON, Robert (Associate Professor of Film Jackson, Jackson Robert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780190660178
• ISBN: 978-0-19-066017-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Film & Video, ART / American / African American, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Southeastern & South Atlantic States, Film history, theory or criticism, US South: South Atlantic States