Fade In, Crossroads
A History of the Southern Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 July 2017
- ISBN 9780190660178
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 754 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 Halftone, 1 Line art 0
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Short description:
Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between black and white southerners and films from the silent era to midcentury. It illustrates how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with that of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation.
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Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era to midcentury. Examining the ways in which the South contributed to the development of the film medium from the late nineteenth century through the golden age of Hollywood, it sheds light on early production centers within the region, such as Jacksonville, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina. It also explores the migration of millions of black and white southerners beyond the South to such destinations as Los Angeles, and their impact on the industry. Fade In, Crossroads tells the story of how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with the rise and fall of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation.
This work details the varied encounters of southern literary figures including William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and many others with the medium as viewers, screenwriters, critics, and filmmakers, and considers the medium's influence on their literary writings. It takes a crucial look at southern historical legacies on film: the prolific Civil War film tradition; the notorious tradition of lynching films during an era of widespread lynching in the South; and the remarkable race film industry, whose independent African American filmmakers forged an important cinematic tradition in response to the racial limitations of both the South and Hollywood. Fade In, Crossroads also maps the influence of film on future participants in the Civil Rights Movement, from prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall to film-industry veterans like Lena Horne and Paul Robeson to the millions of ordinary people, black and white, who found themselves caught up in the struggle for racial equality in the modern United States.
[A] comprehensive study of the cinema of the American South...meticulously researched.
Table of Contents:
Introduction At the Crossroads
Chapter 1. This Southern Advent
Chapter 2. Migrant Media
Chapter 3. The Silver Dream Accumulated
Chapter 4. And the War Came
Chapter 5. A Theater of Violence
Chapter 6. The Matter of Treatment
Chapter 7. Pruning Knife Busy
Conclusion Scattering into Every Crossroad
Index
