Acronym
Black Cinema-Going
Duration
01 May 2018 → 30 April 2020
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
- Study of regions
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Social sciences
- Economic history
- Communication sciences
- Journalism and professional writing
- Media studies
- Other media and communications
Keywords
historical audience studies
African American studies
film
cinemagoing
gender
Project description
This project aims to re-construct the experience of cinema-going in black communities of New York during the interwar period. In drawing on a plethora of multidisciplinary resources – personal correspondence, diary entries, cinema records, fan letters, local news stories and articles from historical black press – it will investigate the roles played by cinema, the dominant form of entertainment at the time, in shaping the lives of African-American women in Harlem.
