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Project

Black Cinemagoing in Interwar New York
Acronym
Black Cinema-Going
Code
41L01218
Duration
01 May 2018 → 30 April 2020
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Cultural history
  • Social sciences
    • Visual communication
    • Cultural media
Keywords
historical audience studies African American studies film cinemagoing gender
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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.

 
 
 
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