Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)

by JudithWeisenfeld (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $45.60

  Examining how the movies constructed images of African American religion, this book explores these cinematic representations and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and the very nature of American identity.