Format:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780813555874
Content:
In Making a Promised Land, Paula J. Massood examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. She analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which Harlem, the "Mecca of the New Negro," became a battleground in the struggles to define African American politics, aesthetics, and citizenship
Content:
In Making a Promised Land, Paula J. Massood examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. She analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which Harlem, the "Mecc
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Description based upon print version of record
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Frontispiece; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Era of the New Negro: African American Politics and Aesthetics inTwentieth-Century Harlem; Chapter 1. African American Aesthetics and the City: Picturing the Black Bourgeoisiein New York; Chapter 2. Heaven and Hell in Harlem: Urban Aesthetics for a Renaissance People; Chapter 3. Delinquents in the Making: Harlem's Representational Turn toward ""Marketable Shock""; Chapter 4. Gangster's Paradise: Drugs and Crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack Cinema
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Chapter 5. Echoes of a Renaissance: Harlem's Nostalgic TurnConclusion. Making and Remaking a Promised Land: Harlem's Continuing Revisions; Notes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813555898
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Making a Promised Land Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
Language:
English
Keywords:
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