Author | : Cara Caddoo |
File Size | : 40,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 13 October 2014 |
ISBN | : 9780674966864 |
Pages | : 305 pages |
Envisioning Freedom by Cara Caddoo Book PDF Summary
In Cara Caddoo’s perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans.