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Black City Cinema : African American Urban Experiences in Film by Paula Massood (2003, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherTemple University Press

ISBN-101592130038

ISBN-139781592130030

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Book TitleBlack City Cinema : African American Urban Experiences in Film

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFilm / General, Media Studies, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, Social Science

AuthorPaula Massood

Book SeriesCulture and the Moving Image Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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LCCN2002-020421

Reviews"Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse." Ethnic and Racial Studies"Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal "the city" as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films. Instead, Paula Massood demonstrates how the urban has functioned as a central organizing trope in the articulation of Black culture, progress, protest and subjectivity. Massood provides a much-needed innovative framework for understanding the complex development of African American film culture." -Jacqueline Stewart, Assistant Professor English, Cinema & Media Studies, African & African American Studies, University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity"Massood's interpretive discussions of the films are clearly written and convincing; she makes an important original point about the ending of Do the Right Thing, probably the most discussed African American film-and ending-of all time. She illuminates many other films, about which she writes with easy familiarity and complete authority." -J. Ronald Green, Professor, History of Art/Film Studies, Ohio State University and author of Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux"[Massood] supplies a new and very rich way of looking at and analyzing the films that she discusses. Highly recommended for academic libraries and large public libraries with a strong film or African American collection." -Library Journal"Thanks to Massood's lively writing style, Black City Cinema is a good read. It is also an important contribution to the field of film studies." -Film Quarterly

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen 1. The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals (Hallelujah, The Green Pastures, Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather) 2. Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era (Scar of Shame, Within Our Gates, Two Gun Man From Harlem, Dark Manhattan) 3. Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Superfly, Bush Mama) 4. Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape (She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing) 5. Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema (Boyz N the Hood, Menace II Society) 6. Taking the A-Train: the City, the Train, and Migration in Spike Lee's Clockers (Posse, Clockers) Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s (Down in the Delta, Shaft (2000)) Notes Index

SynopsisIn Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the "race" films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film., In Black City Cinema , Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. Massood probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the "race" films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film. Author note: Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York., This work shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the 20th century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. The text probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, it considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the race films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and the hood films as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the 20th century.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.N4M33 2003