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

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Author / Creator:	Friedman, Ryan Jay.
Imprint:	Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans in motion pictures. African Americans in the motion picture industry. Race in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century. African Americans in motion pictures. African Americans in the motion picture industry. Motion pictures. Race in motion pictures. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125600

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ISBN:	9780813550800 0813550807 1283864371 9781283864374 0813550483 0813550491 9780813550480 9780813550497
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780813550480

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