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Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949

By Judith Weisenfeld

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780520940666
DOI
10.1525/9780520940666
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2215159 bytes)
Pages
355\355
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 14:55:49

Description

From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity. Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files, censorship records, and discussions and debates about religion and film in the black press, as well as providing close readings of films, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched book brings religious studies and film history together in innovative ways.

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