"The highly teachable essays include analyses of media representations of urban life and gentrification, the ways video games allow users to adopt an experiential understanding of space, the intersection of the regulation of bodies and ..."
Media Crossroads Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (Hardback) by PaulaJ. Massood Hardcover, Published 2021 by Duke University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1061-6, ISBN: 1-4780-1061-4
"A smug glance at the seventies-the so-called "Me Decade"-unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics-all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Far from a placid era, the ..."
Black City Cinema(1st Edition) African American Urban Experiences In Film (Culture And The Moving Image) by PaulaJ. Massood Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-003-0, ISBN: 1-59213-003-8
"In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. Massood p ..."
Making a Promised Land Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film by Professor PaulaJ. Massood Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5587-4, ISBN: 0-8135-5587-6
""Making a Promised Land" examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the Mecca of the New Negro became a battleground in the str ..."
Black City Cinema African American Urban Experiences in Film (Culture and the Moving Image) by Professor PaulaJ. Massood Hardcover, 281 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-002-3, ISBN: 1-59213-002-X
"In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood pro ..."
"New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fear-some darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as ""On the Town"" have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out - ..."
Making a Promised Land Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film by Professor PaulaJ. Massood Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5588-1, ISBN: 0-8135-5588-4
""Making a Promised Land" examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the Mecca of the New Negro became a battleground in the str ..."
"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."
Making a Promised Land Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film by PaulaJ. Massood 264 Pages, Published 2013 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5589-8, ISBN: 0-8135-5589-2
"Alice Attie, Harlem on the Verge (New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2003), 118.
Robin D: G: Kelley, “Disappearing Acts: Capturing Harlem in Transition,” in
Harlem on the Verge, by Alice Attie (New York: Quantuck Press, 2003), 19. Attie,
Harlem on the Verge, 117. While there has been an African presence in Harlem
from very early in its history, the number of African immigrants to the area (
including Central and East Harlem as well) has ..."
"Spike Lee's films have raised a multitude of questions about cinema, from attempts to outline the nature, or "essence," of a black cinematic aesthetics, to a revisioning of American film as a whole. They have sparked critical inquiries into the nature of genres, the role of the auteur, and the mechanics of an active text and an oppositional spectatorship. They have asked us to reconsider spectatorial pleasure; to revel in their polyphon ..."
"Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analysed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical view ..."
"With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, ""Idols of Modernity"" reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, ins ..."
"What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining how failed governmental policies contributed to urban problems and offering best practices for solving them.From social scientists and urban planners to architects and literary and film critics, the authors of this unique collection suggest real responses to this crisis. Could the drastic declines in housing markets hav ..."
"Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracti ..."
"... (Souleymane Sy Savane), a Senegalese taxicab driver who is married to a
Mexican woman, Quiera (Carmen Leyva), and spends his time with African
American, African, and white cab drivers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
William (Red ..."
"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."
"Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By c ..."
Culture and the Moving Image Black City Cinema : African American Urban Experiences in Film by PaulaMassood 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-0565-4, ISBN: 1-4399-0565-7
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NEW BLACK CINEMA(1st Edition) CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM by PaulaMassood Hardcover, Published 2010 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28161-4, ISBN: 0-415-28161-X