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Author Cripps, Thomas

Title Making movies Black : the Hollywood message movie from World War II to the civil rights era / Thomas Cripps
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
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
Summary Cripps's Slow to Fade To Black: The Negro In American Film, 1900-1942, is considered the basic work on blacks' involvement in film, both in Hollywood and outside it. Making Movies Black continues the story up into the 1950s. It discusses the greater attention to black life in films of the early war years, including the all-black Cabin in The Sky, indicates the difficult time black leaders had with Hollywood studios in bringing pressure for better depictions of blacks on screen, describes the discovery of race-related subjects in such postwar films as Pinky and Intruder in the Dust, and depicts the rise of black stars like Sidney Poitier in Hollywood. As in Slow Fade to Black, these events are put into a broader social context
Analysis Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Role of Black persons
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-369) and index
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Subject African Americans in the motion picture industry.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Filmschaffender
Ethnische Beziehungen
Film
Films.
Cinéma américain.
Noirs -- États-Unis.
Noirs -- Dans l'art.
Noirs américains dans l'industrie cinématographique.
cinéma américain (Etats-Unis) -- idéologie -- noir (race) -- guerre mondiale 2 -- 1970.
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92009491
ISBN 9780195360349
0195360346
1280526319
9781280526312
9786610526314
6610526311