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Introduction
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
1. "Put Together to Please a Colored Audience": Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and
Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
[Cara Caddoo]
2. The Birth of a Nation, Melodramas of Black and White, and Early Race Filmmaking
[Linda Williams]
3. The Ambitions of William Foster: Entrepreneurial Filmmaking at the Limits of Uplift Cinema
[Allyson Nadia Field ]
4. In-and-Out-of-Race: The Story of Noble Johnson
[Jane Gaines]
5. Evelyn Preer as a Vehicle of Victimization in Micheaux¿s Films
[Charlene Regester]
6. Capitalizing on Race: White Producers of All-Black Cinema
[Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph.D.]
7. "Busting ¿Em Wide Open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
8. Mediating Black Modernity: The Influence of the Race Press on Race Films
[Anna Everett]
9. The Lafayette Theater: Crucible of African-American Dramatic Arts
[Cary D. Wintz]
10. The Great Migration and the Rise of an Urban "Race Film" Culture
[Davarian L. Baldwin]
11. Race Cinema, The Transition to Sound, and Hollywood¿s African-American-Cast Musicals
[Ryan Jay Friedman]
12. Preserving Race Films
[Jan-Christopher Horak]
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Introduction
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
1. "Put Together to Please a Colored Audience": Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and
Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
[Cara Caddoo]
2. The Birth of a Nation, Melodramas of Black and White, and Early Race Filmmaking
[Linda Williams]
3. The Ambitions of William Foster: Entrepreneurial Filmmaking at the Limits of Uplift Cinema
[Allyson Nadia Field ]
4. In-and-Out-of-Race: The Story of Noble Johnson
[Jane Gaines]
5. Evelyn Preer as a Vehicle of Victimization in Micheaux¿s Films
[Charlene Regester]
6. Capitalizing on Race: White Producers of All-Black Cinema
[Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph.D.]
7. "Busting ¿Em Wide Open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
8. Mediating Black Modernity: The Influence of the Race Press on Race Films
[Anna Everett]
9. The Lafayette Theater: Crucible of African-American Dramatic Arts
[Cary D. Wintz]
10. The Great Migration and the Rise of an Urban "Race Film" Culture
[Davarian L. Baldwin]
11. Race Cinema, The Transition to Sound, and Hollywood¿s African-American-Cast Musicals
[Ryan Jay Friedman]
12. Preserving Race Films
[Jan-Christopher Horak]
Show moreIntroduction
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
1. "Put Together to Please a Colored Audience": Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and
Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
[Cara Caddoo]
2. The Birth of a Nation, Melodramas of Black and White, and Early Race Filmmaking
[Linda Williams]
3. The Ambitions of William Foster: Entrepreneurial Filmmaking at the Limits of Uplift Cinema
[Allyson Nadia Field ]
4. In-and-Out-of-Race: The Story of Noble Johnson
[Jane Gaines]
5. Evelyn Preer as a Vehicle of Victimization in Micheaux’s Films
[Charlene Regester]
6. Capitalizing on Race: White Producers of All-Black Cinema
[Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph.D.]
7. "Busting ’Em Wide Open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company
[Barbara Tepa Lupack]
8. Mediating Black Modernity: The Influence of the Race Press on Race Films
[Anna Everett]
9. The Lafayette Theater: Crucible of African-American Dramatic Arts
[Cary D. Wintz]
10. The Great Migration and the Rise of an Urban "Race Film" Culture
[Davarian L. Baldwin]
11. Race Cinema, The Transition to Sound, and Hollywood’s African-American-Cast Musicals
[Ryan Jay Friedman]
12. Preserving Race Films
[Jan-Christopher Horak]
Barbara Tepa Lupack, former professor of English at St. John’s University and Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY/ESC, is author/editor of more than twenty-five books. Helm Fellow at the Lilly Library at Indiana University (2011) and Lehman Senior Scholar/Fellow at the Norman Rockwell Museum (2014-15), she is currently one of New York State’s inaugural "Public Scholars" (2015-2017).
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