Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

by Jane M. Gaines

Book Overview

In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an ambitious historical and theoretical agenda.

Fire and Desire offers a penetrating look at the black independent film movement during the silent period. Gaines traces the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226278751
• ISBN13: 9780226278759
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"