Envisioning Freedom: Cinema And The Building Of Modern Black Life

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.

• | Author: Cara Caddoo
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 13, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674368053
• | ISBN-13: 9780674368057