Hollywood Be Thy Name
Title | Hollywood Be Thy Name PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Weisenfeld |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2007-06-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520940660 |
From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity. Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files, censorship records, and discussions and debates about religion and film in the black press, as well as providing close readings of films, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched book brings religious studies and film history together in innovative ways.
Staging Faith
Title | Staging Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Craig R. Prentiss |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0814708080 |
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban‑industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity. Black playwrights pointed in quite different ways toward approaches to church, scripture, belief, and ritual that they deemed beneficial to the advancement of the race. Their plays were important not only in mirroring theological reflection of the time, but in helping to shape African American thought about religion in black communities. The religious themes of these plays were in effect arguments about the place of religion in African American lives. In Staging Faith, Craig R. Prentiss illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion. With a lively and engaging style, the volume brings long forgotten plays to life as it chronicles the cultural and religious fissures that marked early twentieth century African American society. Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the editor of Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2003).
Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference
Title | Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference PDF eBook |
Author | National Tax Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | Local taxation |
ISBN |
Voices in Black Studies
Title | Voices in Black Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Sacred Places
Title | Sacred Places PDF eBook |
Author | Harry G. Lefever |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780881461213 |
A guide to the civil rights movement in Atlanta. It is organized around four walking and driving tours of the important civil rights sites in Atlanta since 1940s. It provides a brief history of the civil rights movement in Atlanta in the 1950s and 1960s and a chronology of the important civil rights events in Atlanta from 1957 to 1968.
Journal of American Culture
Title | Journal of American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Comparative civilization |
ISBN |
Cyclopaedia of African Methodism
Title | Cyclopaedia of African Methodism PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Walker Wayman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Cyclopaedia of African Methodism by Alexander Walker Wayman, first published in 1882, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.