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September, 2007
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Migrating to the Movies
Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

By Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 343. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95)

In Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart describes the creation of an American cinema through its links to the Great Migration of African Americans from the South during the first twenty years of the last century. This is a brilliant move that sheds fresh light on two familiar stories. Through extensive, finely detailed research and welljudged interpretation, Stewart recovers what was at stake in the production of images and narratives that sought to describe the "reality" of black people in the raw, new medium of silent-era film. Well versed in the tradition of black film scholarship that charts Hollywood's development of racialist images, Stewart seeks to move beyond it through postcolonial and feminist theoretical models. From this grounding she develops a way of seeing "preclassical film" that establishes the active part played by African Americans in America's early film culture. . . .
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