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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.

African Americans in motion pictures. --- African Americans in the motion picture industry. --- African Americans --- Motion picture audiences --- Migrations --- History --- African Americans in motion pictures --- African Americans in the motion picture industry --- Afro-Americains dans l'industrie du film --- Afro-Amerikanen in de film --- Afro-Amerikanen in de filmindustrie --- Afro-americains dans le cinéma --- Amerikanen [Zwarte ] in de film --- Noirs américains dans le cinéma --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de film --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Afro-Americans in the motion picture industry --- Negroes in the moving-picture industry --- Motion picture industry --- Race films --- Afro-Americans in motion pictures --- Negroes in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Audiences --- United States --- 20th century --- Black people --- african american actors. --- african american directors. --- african americans. --- america. --- american entertainment. --- american history. --- black americans. --- black audiences. --- black film culture. --- black urban life. --- black urban modernity. --- chicago. --- cinema and culture. --- cinema. --- cinematic representations. --- early films. --- film history. --- illustrated. --- influence of cinema. --- migration. --- modern history. --- movie theaters. --- nonfiction. --- northern migration. --- oscar micheaux. --- race films. --- silent movie era. --- urban populations. --- urban setting.