Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949From 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. |
מה אומרים אנשים - כתיבת ביקורת
לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
תוכן
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| 19 | |
2 De Lawd a Natchel Man | 52 |
3 A Mighty Epic of Modern Morals | 88 |
4 Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints | 130 |
5 A Long Long Way | 163 |
6 Why Didnt They Tell Me Ima Negro? | 204 |
Conclusion | 235 |
Filmography | 239 |
Notes | 241 |
Select Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 331 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 162 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
עמוד 317 - It cannot be put out of view that the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit...
עמוד 162 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
עמוד 315 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
עמוד 315 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
עמוד 162 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men : For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
עמוד 70 - Unburdened by the differences of more educated theologians they accept the Old Testament as a chronicle of wonders which happened to people like themselves in vague but actual places, and of rules of conduct, true acceptance of which will lead them to a tangible, three-dimensional Heaven.
עמוד 317 - ... a significant medium for the communication of ideas. They may affect public attitudes and behavior in a variety of ways, ranging from direct espousal of a political or social doctrine to the subtle shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression. The importance of motion pictures as an organ of public opinion is not lessened by the fact that they are designed to entertain as well as to inform.
עמוד 205 - The pervasive gap between our aims and what we actually do is creating a kind of moral dry rot which eats away at the emotional and rational bases of democratic beliefs.
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949 George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies [ACLS Humanities E-Book] |
| מאת | Judith Weisenfeld |
| הוצאה | University of California Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0520940660, 9780520940666 |
| אורך | 355 עמודים |
| ייצא ציטוט ביביליוגרפי | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |