Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-
2005
PN1995.9.N4 S74 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.
Author Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-
ISBN 0520233492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520233506 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xxiii, 343 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call Number PN1995.9.N4 S74 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/652996073
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.
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