Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Jane M. Gaines
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In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an ambitious historical and theoretical agenda. Fire and Desire offers a penetrating look at the black independent film movement during the silent period. Gaines 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. Beginning with What Happened in the Tunnel, a movie that played with race and sex taboos by featuring the first interracial kiss in film, Gaines also explores the cinematic constitution of self and other through surprise encounters: James Baldwin sees himself in the face of Bette Davis, family resemblance is read in Richard S. Robert's portrait of an interracial family, and black film pioneer George P. Johnson looks back on Micheaux.
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- Title Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era
- Author Jane M. Gaines
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
- Date 2001-02-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226278759 / 0226278751
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.84 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00055952
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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- Library Journal, 02/01/2001, Page 97
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