Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity by Jacqueline Stewart

Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

Jacqueline Stewart

367 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illust...

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