Making a promised land Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film /

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Main Author: Massood, Paula J., 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem
  • African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York
  • Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people
  • Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock"
  • Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema
  • Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn
  • Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.