Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences In Film

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Contents Acknowledgments IX Introduction: Migrations, Movies, and African American Cities on the Screen The Antebellum Idyll and Hollywood's Black-Cast Musicals 11 2 Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the Early Sound Era 45 3 Cotton in the City: The Black Ghetto, Blaxploitation, and Beyond 79 4 Welcome to Crooklyn: Spike Lee and the Rearticulation of the Black Urbanscape 117 5 Out of the Ghetto, into the Hood: Changes in the Construction of Black City Cinema 145 6 Taking the A-Train: The City, the Train, and Migration in Spike lee's Clockers 175 Epilogue: New Millennium Minstrel Shows? African American Cinema in the Late 1990s 207 Notes 227 Index 257 VII Copyrighted Material ...