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Dear Screen-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949
Judith Weisenfeld is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion at
Vassar College. She is the author of _African American Women and
Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945_ and the
coeditor of _This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women's
Religious Biography._
http://go.ucpress.edu/WeisenfeldHollywood
"This is a ground-breaking book. The text is remarkable in its use of
MPAA files and studio archives; Weisenfeld uncovers all sorts of side
stories that enrich the larger narrative."-Colleen McDannell, author
of _Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression_
From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios
and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created
stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first
book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American
religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations
and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses
about race, the social and moral requirements of American
citizenship, and the very nature of American identity.
Drawing on such textual sources as studio production files,
censorship records, and discussions and debates about religion and
film in the black press, as well as providing close readings of
films, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched book
brings religious studies and film history together in innovative ways.
Full information about the bookis available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/WeisenfeldHollywood
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University of California Press
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Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
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