Description
From Green Pastures to Hoodz
About the Author
Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Reviews
"Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal "the city" as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films. Instead, Paula Massood demonstrates how the urban has functioned as a central organizing trope in the articulation of Black culture, progress, protest and subjectivity. Massood provides a much-needed innovative framework for understanding the complex development of African American film culture."-Jacqueline Stewart, Assistant Professor English, Cinema & Media Studies, African & African American Studies, University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity "Massood's interpretive discussions of the films are clearly written and convincing; she makes an important original point about the ending of Do the Right Thing, probably the most discussed African American film-and ending-of all time. She illuminates many other films, about which she writes with easy familiarity and complete authority."-J. Ronald Green, Professor, History of Art/Film Studies, Ohio State University and author of Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux "[Massood] supplies a new and very rich way of looking at and analyzing the films that she discusses. Highly recommended for academic libraries and large public libraries with a strong film or African American collection."-Library Journal "Thanks to Massood's lively writing style, Black City Cinema is a good read. It is also an important contribution to the field of film studies."-Film Quarterly "...emerges as an important resource... [it] is an engaging read, pulling together its various strands of analysis in incisive prose."-Cineaste "Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse."-Ethnic and Racial Studies "Examines how African Americans and the urban environment have been portrayed in films since the 1920s."-Black Issues Book Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781592130030
Author Paula Massood
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.
Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm