Ryan Jay Friedman

Hollywood's African American Films

The Transition to Sound

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a "vogue" for "Negro films." "Hollywood's African American Films" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of "talking pictures" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white "Broadway" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional films reflect contradictions within prevailing racial ideologies--arising most clearly in the movies' treatment of African American characters' decisions to migrate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780813550497
• ISBN-10: 0813550491
• Artikelnr.: 32738342

Autorenporträt

Ryan Jay Friedman is an assistant professor in the department of English and the program in film studies at The Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Negro Talking Pictures
1. "Black Became the Fad": White Highbrow Culture and Negro Films
2. "The Negro Invades Hollywood": The Great Migration, the Studios, and the
Performance of African American Social Mobility
3. On (With the) Show: Race and Female Bodily Spectacle in Early Hollywood
Sound Film
4. The Unhomely Plantation: Racial Phantasmagoria in Hallelujah
5. Blackness without African Americans: Check and Double Check and the
Dialectics of Cinematic Blackface
Conclusion: "The Required Negro Motif" after the Transition to Sound
Notes
Index