Black City Cinema

by Massood, Paula J.

• ISBN13: 9781592130030
• ISBN10: 1592130038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Films discussed in Black City Cinema include Hallelujah, The Green Pastures, Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, Scar of Shame, Within Our Gates, Two Gun Man From Harlem, Dark Manhattan, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Superfly, Bush Mama, She's Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Boyz N the Hood, Menace II Society, Posse, Clockers, Down in the Delta, and Shaft (2000). Book jacket.

Author Biography

Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen	1	(10)
The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals	11	(34)
Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era	45	(34)
Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond	79	(38)
Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape	117	(28)
Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema	145	(30)
Taking the A-Train: The City, the Train, and Migration in Spike Lee's Clockers	175	(32)
Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s	207	(20)
Notes	227	(30)
Index	257