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Informationen zum Autor PAULA J. MASSOOD is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College! City University of New York. Klappentext This work shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the 20th century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. The text probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, it considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the race films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and the hood films as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung A title that shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North! West! and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It offers a unique map of Black representations in film. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Migrations! Movies! and African American Cities on the Screen 1. The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals (Hallelujah! The Green Pastures! Cabin in the Sky! Stormy Weather) 2. Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era (Scar of Shame! Within Our Gates! Two Gun Man From Harlem! Dark Manhattan) 3. Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto! Blaxploitation! and Beyond (Cotton Comes to Harlem! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song! Superfly! Bush Mama) 4. Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape (She's Gotta Have It! Do the Right Thing) 5. Out of the Ghetto! into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema (Boyz N the Hood! Menace II Society) 6. Taking the A-Train: the City! the Train! and Migration in Spike Lee's Clockers (Posse! Clockers) Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s (Down in the Delta! Shaft (2000)) Notes Index ...
