Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life

by Cara Caddoo

Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective--if fraught--culture of freedom.

In Cara Caddoo's perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674368053
• ISBN13: 9780674368057
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"