Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and...

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Main Author: Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Series:George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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