Fade in, crossroads : a history of the southern cinema / Robert Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Robert, 1971 December 17- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Southern States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

History.

Southern States--In motion pictures.

Southern States.

Race relations in motion pictures.

African Americans in the motion picture industry--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 329 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

How did the US South contribute to the development of film? And how did film shape the modern South? In Fade In, Crossroads, Robert Jackson tells the story of the relationships between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood. Jackson reveals the profound consequences of the coincidence of the rise and fall of the American film industry with the rise and fall of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation. He considers southern historical legacies on film, from popular Civil War films and comparably popular lynching films emerging in a time of prolific lynching in the South, to the resilient race film industry whose African American filmmakers forged an independent cinematic movement in defiance of the racial restrictions of both the South and Hollywood. He also traces the influence of film on future participants in the Civil Rights Movement, from prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall to film-industry veterans like Lena Horne and Paul Robeson to the millions of ordinary people, black and white, who found themselves caught up in the struggle for racial equality in the modern United States. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jackson, Robert, 1971 December 17- Fade in, crossroads.

ISBN:

9780190660178

0190660171

9780190660185

019066018X

OCLC:

964377271