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<p>This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. <b>Making Movies Black</b> shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing ideas about race. Cripps contends that from the liberal rhetoric of the war years—marked as it was by the propaganda catchwords brotherhood and tolerance—came movies that defined a new African-American presence both in film and in American society at large. He argues that the war years, more than any previous era, gave African-American activists access to centers of cultural influence and power in both Washington and Hollywood.<br> Among the results were an expanded black imagery on the screen during the war—in combat movies such as <b>Bataan</b>, <b>Crash Dive</b>, and <b>Sahara</b>; musicals such as <b>Stormy Weather</b> and <b>Cabin in the Sky</b>; and government propaganda films such as <b>The Negro Soldier</b> and <b>Wings for this Man</b> (narrated by Ronald Reagan!). After the war, the ideologies of both black activism and integrationism pe

Author

Thomas Cripps; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195076691

Subjects

Science, History, Sports