The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of Africa

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of Africa

In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans fro

Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema. Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era,

An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword,