| Description |
xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Culture and the moving image |
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Culture and the moving image.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Antebellum idyll and Hollywood's black-cast musicals -- Harlem is heaven: city motifs in race films from the early sound era -- Cotton in the city: the black ghetto, blaxploitation, and beyond -- Welcome to crooklyn: Spike Lee and the rearticulation of the Black urbanscape -- Out of the ghetto, into the hood: changes in the construction of Black city cinema -- Taking the a-train, the city, the train, and migration in Spike Lee's clockers. |
| Subject |
African Americans in motion pictures.
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City and town life in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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| ISBN |
159213002X cloth alkaline paper |
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1592130038 paperback alkaline paper |
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