Veiled Aristocrats
Title | Veiled Aristocrats PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude Sanborn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
The Black 100
Title | The Black 100 PDF eBook |
Author | Columbus Salley |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780806520483 |
Lists and ranks those black Americans who have had the greatest impact on the progress toward complete participation in our society.
Straight Lick
Title | Straight Lick PDF eBook |
Author | J. Ronald Green |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2000-09-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253109221 |
A critical examination of the films of Oscar Micheaux. One of the most original and successful filmmakers of all time, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884, yet he created an impressive legacy in commercial cinema. Between 1913 and 1951 he wrote, directed, and distributed some forty-three feature films, more than any other black filmmaker in the world, a record of production that is likely to stand for a very long time. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. Uplift provided the context for Micheaux's extensive commentary on racist cinema, such as D. W. Griffith's 1915 blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation, which Micheaux "answered" with his very early films Within Our Gates and Symbol of the Unconquered. Uplift explains Micheaux's use of "negative images" of African Americans as well as his multi-pronged campaign against stereotype and caricature in American culture. His campaign produced a body of films saturated with a nuanced intertexual "signifying," boldly and repeatedly treating controversial topics that face white censorship time after time, topics ranging from white mob and Klan violence to light-skin-color fetish to white financing of black cultural productions.
With a Crooked Stick—The Films of Oscar Micheaux
Title | With a Crooked Stick—The Films of Oscar Micheaux PDF eBook |
Author | J. Ronald Green |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253217158 |
Readers will find this an invaluable guide to the preoccupations and features of Micheaux's remarkable career and the insight it provides into the African American experience of the 1920s and 30s.
Opportunity
Title | Opportunity PDF eBook |
Author | Elmer Anderson Carter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Monitoring the Movies
Title | Monitoring the Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Fronc |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1477313958 |
As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental regulation of film conceded that some entity—boards populated by trusted civic leaders, for example—needed to safeguard the public good. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NB), a civic group founded in New York City in 1909, emerged as a national cultural chaperon well suited to protect this emerging form of expression from state incursions. Using the National Board’s extensive files, Monitoring the Movies offers the first full-length study of the NB and its campaign against motion-picture censorship. Jennifer Fronc traces the NB’s Progressive-era founding in New York; its evolving set of “standards” for directors, producers, municipal officers, and citizens; its “city plan,” which called on citizens to report screenings of condemned movies to local officials; and the spread of the NB’s influence into the urban South. Ultimately, Monitoring the Movies shows how Americans grappled with the issues that arose alongside the powerful new medium of film: the extent of the right to produce and consume images and the proper scope of government control over what citizens can see and show.
Crisis
Title | Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |