Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audience...

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Other Authors: Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- (writer of the foreword.), Gordon, Marsha, 1971- (Editor), Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. Making voice, taking voice: nonwhite and nontheatrical / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
  • Introduction / Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon
  • 'A vanishing race' The Native American films of J.K. Dixon / Caitlin McGrath
  • 'Regardless of race, color, or creed': filming the Henry Street Settlement visiting Nurse Service, 1924-1933 / Tanya Goldman
  • 'I'll see you in church': local films in African American communities, 1924-1962 / Martin L. Johnson
  • The politics of vanishing celluloid: rediscovering Fort Rupert and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American ethnographic film / Colin Williamson
  • Red star/black star: the early career of film editor Hortense 'Tee' Beveridge, 1948-1968 / Walter Forsberg
  • Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican folk art, educational film, and Chicana/o art / Colin Gunckel
  • Ever-widening horizons. The National Urban League and the pathologization of blackness. In a world for Jim and a morning for Jimmy / Michelle Kelley
  • 'A touch of the Orient': negotiating Japanese American identity in the challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett
  • 'I have my choice': behind every good man and the black queer subject in American nontheatrical film / Noah Tsika
  • Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick
  • 'A new sense of black awareness?' Navigating expectations in the black cop / Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper
  • 'Don't be a segregationist: program films for everyone': the New York Public Library's film library and youth film workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton
  • Teenage moviemaking in the lower East side: the Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974 / Noelle Griffis
  • Ro-revus talks about race: South Carolina malnutrition and parasite films, 1968-1975 / Dan Streible
  • Government-sponsored film and latinidad: Voice of la raza (1971) / Laura Isabel Serna
  • Aestheticizing Asian American assimilation in the learning corporation of America's many Americans series (1970-1982) / Nadine Chan
  • 'The right kind of family': memories to light and the home movie as racialized technology / Crystal Mun-hye Baik
  • Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. Castro.