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Author Jackson, Robert, 1971 December 17- author.

Title Fade in, crossroads : a history of the southern cinema / Robert Jackson
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction: at the crossroads -- This southern advent -- Migrant media -- The silver dream accumulated -- And the war came -- A theater of violence -- The matter of treatment -- Pruning knife busy -- Conclusion: scattering into every crossroad
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Race relations in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
African Americans in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Race relations in motion pictures
SUBJECT Southern States -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125667
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016056597
ISBN 9780190660192
0190660198
9780190660215
019066021X