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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

In chapter 3, “Colored Theaters in the Jim Crow City,” of Envisioning Freedom, Cara Caddoo examines the growth of colored theaters

In Cara Caddoo’s book “Envisioning Freedom”, chapter 6, titled “Mobilizing an Envisioned Community”, examines the inspiring black communities, mainly during

“Preserving race films,” a chapter by Jan-Christopher Horak, provides a history of the preservation of race films and quantifies the

The article “The great migration and the rise of an urban ‘race film’ culture” by Davarian L. Baldwin looks to