Black City Cinema,9781592130030

Black City Cinema

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ISBN13: 9781592130030
ISBN10: 1592130038
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Temple Univ Pr
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Summary

Films discussed in Black City Cinema include Hallelujah, The Green Pastures, Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, Scar of Shame, Within Our Gates, Two Gun Man From Harlem, Dark Manhattan, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Superfly, Bush Mama, She's Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Boyz N the Hood, Menace II Society, Posse, Clockers, Down in the Delta, and Shaft (2000). Book jacket.

Author Biography

Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen 1(10)
The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals
11(34)
Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era
45(34)
Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond
79(38)
Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape
117(28)
Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema
145(30)
Taking the A-Train: The City, the Train, and Migration in Spike Lee's Clockers
175(32)
Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s 207(20)
Notes 227(30)
Index 257

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