03062cam a2200577Mu 4500 ocn774493658 OCoLC 20200709055235.0 m d cr |n| 120126s2007 cau o 000 0 eng d MHW eng MHW MERUC CN3GA OCLCO IDEBK OCLCO OCLCQ N$T 816343525 9780520940666 (electronic bk.) 0520940660 (electronic bk.) 128236023X 9781282360235 (OCoLC)774493658 (OCoLC)816343525 306090 (N$T) PN1995.9.N4 HR bicssc ART 057000 bisacsh PER 004040 bisacsh 791.436529 N$TA Weisenfeld, Judith. Hollywood Be Thy Name [electronic resource] : African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. CA : University of California Press, 2007. 1 online resource (357 p.) Description based upon print version of record. From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity. Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files, censorship recor List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "'Taint What You Was, It's What You IsToday"; 2. "'De Lawd' a Natchel Man"; 3. "A Mighty Epic of Modern Morals"; 4. "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints"; 5. "A Long, Long Way"; 6. "Why Didn't They Tell Me I'ma Negro?"; Conclusion; Filmography; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; African Americans in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- United States. Religion in motion pictures. African Americans in motion pictures. Religion in motion pictures. Motion pictures United States. ART / Film & Video bisacsh PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: 9780520227743 http://www.msvu.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=837195 Check for Full Text MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=236023 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=306090 Table of contents http://www.myilibrary.com?id=236023&ref=toc Ingram Digital eBook Collection IDEB 236023 EBSCOhost EBSC 306090 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 49683 49683