Faded Glory: Early African American Cinema, 1915-1952
Few Americans, even those with a serious interest in film, know that from the end of World War One until the early 1950s, an independent cinema appeared created by and for African Americans. Shown in cinemas located in African American neighborhoods or at special times in mixed neighborhoods, these films were never reviewed in the mainstream media, nor did the vast majority of “white” America know them. The films ranged from musicals to melodramas to westerns to horror films, and at...
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