TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisenfeld,Judith
TI  - Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949
SN  - 9780520940666 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN1995.9.N4 
U1  - 791.436529 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures -- United States
KW  - Religion in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - ART / Film & Video
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 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
N2  - 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
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