Month: February 2017

On “Exhibitions of Faith and Fellowship” Cara Caddoo’s first chapter “Exhibitions of Faith and Fellowship” in her book Envisioning Freedom

This week I read “Oscar Micheaux’s The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context” by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence.

Film has inevitably played a significant role in the development and evolution of America’s social climate– whether it intended to

“A Vicious and Hurtful Play” – Allyson Nadia Field, Uplift Cinema This chapter is about the reception and response to

In Linda Williams’ essay, “The Birth of a Nation, Melodrama of Black and White, and Early Filmmaking,” Williams explores the

Uplift cinema is a genre of cinema that was prominent in the Black community in the 1910’s – 1920’s. Its

The chapter I chose to read, “Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company”, from the book Oscar Micheaux and

In Clyde R. Taylor’s “Black Silence and the Politics of Representation,” a framework is built for considering the stifled growth

[original article can be found here] Part 1 describes how Micheaux depicts african americans in a way that is described

In Cara Caddou’s chapter “Put Together to Please a Colored Audience: Black Churches, Motion Pictures, and Migration, at the Turn