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 -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu