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Fire and Desire : Mixed-race Movies in the Silent Era by Jane Gaines, Jane M. Gaines is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fire and Desire : Mixed-race Movies in the Silent Era about?
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.<br> <br> <i>Fire and Desire</i> offers a penetrating look at the black independent film movement during the silent period. Gaines traces the profound influence that D. W. Griffith's racis
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- Author
- Jane Gaines, Jane M. Gaines
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226278735
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Performing Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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