Projecting Blackness: African American Religion in American Film, 1900-1950 October 14, 2004

LECTURE by Judith Wiesenfeld (Vassar)
Projecting Blackness: African American Religion in American Film, 1900-1950

Dean?s Conference Room, 12th Floor, 721 Broadway

An exploration of how Americans encountered African-American religion in the first half of the 20th century through film ? from Hollywood?s early talkies and black cast musicals, through race movies and World War II-era integration films.