SCREENING RACE IN AMERICAN NONTHEATRICAL FILM.
Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audience...
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DURHAM :
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- NOTE ON THE COMPANION WEBSITE
- FOREWORD Giving Voice, Taking Voice: Nonwhite and Nontheatrical
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1 "A Vanishing Race"? The Native American Films of J. K. Dixon
- 2 "Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed" Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924-1933
- 3 I'll See You in Church" Local Films in African American Communities, 1924-1962
- 4 The Politics of Vanishing Celluloid: Fort Rupert (1951) and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American Ethnographic Film
- 5 Red Star/Black Star: The Early Career of Film Editor Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, 1948-1968
- 6 Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957) Mexican Folk Art, Educational Film, and Chicana/o Art
- 7 Ever-Widening Horizons? The National Urban League and the Pathologization of Blackness in A Morning for Jimmy (1960)
- 8 "A Touch of the Orient" Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957)
- 9 "I Have My Choice" Behind Every Good Man (1967) and the Black Queer Subject in American Nontheatrical Film
- 10 Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT
- 11 "A New Sense of Black Awareness"? Navigating Expectations in The Black Cop (1969)
- 12 "Don't Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone" The New York Public Library's Film Library and Youth Film Workshops
- 13 Teenage Moviemaking in the Lower East Side: The Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974
- 14 Ro-Revus Talks about Race: South Carolina Malnutrition and Parasite Films, 1968-1975
- 15 Government-Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1971)
- 16 An Aesthetics of Multiculturalism: Asian American Assimilation and the Learning Corporation of America's Many Americans Series (1970-1982)
- 17 "The Right Kind of Family" Memories to Light and the Home Movie as Racialized Technology
- 18 Black Home Movies: Time to Represent
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX