Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942

by Thomas Cripps

Book Overview

Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195021304
• ISBN13: 9780195021301
• Release Date: February 1977
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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