This work looks at the black independent film movement during the silent period. It traces the profound influence that D.W. Griffith's racist epic "The Birth of a Nation" exerted on black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux, the director of the newly recovered "Within Our Gates".
Circuits of memory and history: The memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / Amelie Hastie -- Nazimova's veils: Salome at the intersection of film histories / Patricia White -- Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines -- Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vat…
This pathbreaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could tra…
