Hollywood Be Thy Name African American Religion in American Film 1929 1949 1st Edition by Judith Weisenfeld ISBN 0520251008 978-0520251007
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ISBN 10: 0520251008
ISBN 13: 978-0520251007
Author: Judith Weisenfeld
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.
Table of contents:
1. “’Taint What You Was, It’s What You Is Today”: Hallelujah and the Politics of Racial Authenticity
2. “‘De Lawd’ a Natchel Man”: The Green Pastures in the American Cultural Imagination
3. “A Mighty Epic of Modern Morals”: Black-Audience Religious Films
4. “Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints”: Urban Commercial Culture and the Reconstruction of Black Religious Leadership
5. “A Long, Long Way”: Religion and African American Wartime Morale
6. “Why Didn’t They Tell Me I’m a Negro?”: Lost Boundaries and the Moral Landscape of Race
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