Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film /

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Author / Creator:	Massood, Paula J., 1965-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	African American neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York. African American neighborhoods. Motion pictures. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- In motion pictures. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200431

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ISBN:	9780813555898 0813555892 9781461934943 146193494X 9780813555881 0813555884 9780813555874 0813555876
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Massood, Paula J., 1965- Making a promised land. New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, ©2013 9780813555881

Table of Contents:

The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem
African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York
Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people
Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock"
Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema
Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn
Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.

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