Making movies Black : the Hollywood message movie from World War II to the civil rights era / Thomas Cripps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cripps, Thomas, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Surveys the involvement of Blacks in the American cinema from World War II to the 1950's, discussing the attention to black life in films such as ""Cabin in the Sky"", ""Pinky"" and ""Intruder in the Dust"". It also depicts the rise of black film stars such as Sidney Poitier.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Antebellum Hollywood; 2. Wendell and Walter Go to Hollywood; 3. The Making of a Genre: The Integration of Colin Kelly, Meyer Levin, and Dorie Miller; 4. The Making of The Negro Soldier; 5. Hollywood Wins: The End of ""Race Movies,""; 6. Documentary Film Culture and Postwar Liberal Momentum; 7. Thermidor; 8. ""A Pot of Message,""; 9. Settling In, Settling For; Abbreviations; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-369) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772512-0

1-4294-0757-3

1-280-52631-9

0-19-536034-6

OCLC:

466426598