Hollywood's African American films :: the transition to sound /

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 movi...

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1. Verfasser: Friedman, Ryan Jay
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung: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 a.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813550800
0813550807
1283864371
9781283864374

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