Jacqueline Najuma Stewart’s Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity is a great starting place for anyone interested in learning about African American experiences with and in silent film. In the book, Stewart examines how “the urban and northern immigration of African Americans …
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2020 Summer Reading Challenge Reading List
This summer I am participating in the 2020 Summer Classic Film Reading Challenge hosted by Raquel Stecher at her Out of the Past blog. In a world of quarantine and social distancing, this is the perfect time for finally getting around to classic film books …
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The Sound of Fury (1950) — A Blacklisted Film Noir
The Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s really cut short a lot of interesting careers and forced promising talent to relocate to other countries. This is what happened to director Cy Endfield who was just getting some public and critical attention in 1950 with two film …
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The Ten Commandments (1923): DeMille’s Silent Biblical Epic
It’s not very often that a filmmaker gets to remake his or her own movie. Directors are lucky enough to make two separate movies let only the same movie twice! There are however a few examples of a director looking back to their earlier days …
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