Introduction: Picturing freedom -- Exhibitions of faith and fellowship -- Cinema and the god given right to play -- Colored theaters in the Jim Crow city -- Monuments of progress -- The fight over fight pictures -- Mobilizing an envisioned community -- Race films and the transnational frontier -- Conclusion: Picturing the future
Summary
[Description]In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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