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{en} Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977)

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"Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film -- both before and behind the camera -- from the earliest movies through World War II. Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South -- the "lost cause" aspect of the Civil War, the "happy" slaves singing in the fields -- showing how these characterizations culminated in the blatantly racist attitudes of Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and how this film led the N.A.A.C.P. to campaign vigorously, and successfully, for change. Cripps goes on the examine the period of the 1920s to 1940s, a time replete with stereotypical casting for African-Americans and largely unsuccessful attempts at independent black production. But with the coming of World War II also came increasing pressure for wider, more equitable use of blacks in films, leading eventually to more sympathetic casting of racial roles, such as that of Sam, the piano player in the 1942 classic Casablanca."--

The unformed image: The Afro-American in early American movies -- The year of The Birth of a Nation -- Two early strides toward a black cinema -- Black and white in Hollywood -- The silent Hollywood Negro -- Uncle Tom was a "bad nigger" -- The black underground -- Two cheers for the "Indies" -- "Better than white voices" -- Black music, white movies -- The Hollywood Negro faces the Great Depression -- Meanwhile far away from the movie colony -- The politics of art.

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-{en} Wil Haygood, '''''Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World''''' (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021)
+{en} Thomas Cripps, '''''Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942''''' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977)
 == Abstract ==
-"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X to the O.J. Simpson trial to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves--including The Imitation of Life, Gone With the Wind, Porgy & Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the 70s, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others. An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema, and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America."--
+"Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film -- both before and behind the camera -- from the earliest movies through World War II. Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South -- the "lost cause" aspect of the Civil War, the "happy" slaves singing in the fields -- showing how these characterizations culminated in the blatantly racist attitudes of Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and how this film led the N.A.A.C.P. to campaign vigorously, and successfully, for change. Cripps goes on the examine the period of the 1920s to 1940s, a time replete with stereotypical casting for African-Americans and largely unsuccessful attempts at independent black production. But with the coming of World War II also came increasing pressure for wider, more equitable use of blacks in films, leading eventually to more sympathetic casting of racial roles, such as that of Sam, the piano player in the 1942 classic Casablanca."--
 == Contents ==
-Movie night at Woodrow Wilson's White House -- The rare and extraordinary sighting of a Black filmmaker -- The imitation game -- A most peculiar kind of fame -- An interlude-- 1933, Babyface and Chico -- Flashback, The 1939 Academy Awards -- Dangerous love, starring Inger Stevens, Sammy Davis, Jr., James Edwards, Ike Jones, and Dorothy Dandridge -- The pricey Black movie that vanished, and how it came to be -- Two cool cats with Caribbean roots disrupt Hollywood -- Flashback, The 1964 Academy Awards -- The hustlers, detectives, and pimps who stunned Hollywood -- Foxy Brown arrives, vanishes, and gets resurrected -- Flashback, The 1972 Academy Awards -- Berry Gordy dares to make movies -- Kunta Kinte seizes the moment -- Aiming a camera in Brooklyn -- The blackout that haunted a decade -- An interlude, the ghost of Sidney -- The reckoning -- The front page -- Moving in the Moonlight -- The scourged back.
+The unformed image: The Afro-American in early American movies -- The year of The Birth of a Nation -- Two early strides toward a black cinema -- Black and white in Hollywood -- The silent Hollywood Negro -- Uncle Tom was a "bad nigger" -- The black underground -- Two cheers for the "Indies" -- "Better than white voices" -- Black music, white movies -- The Hollywood Negro faces the Great Depression -- Meanwhile far away from the movie colony -- The politics of art.
 == External links ==
-[[Category:Film Studies--Bibliography]]
+[[Category:Film Studies--1970s (books)]]
+[[Category:Film Studies--English (books)]]
 [[Category:African Americans--Biblio (film subject)]]