• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Black-Audience Westerns and the Politics of Cultural Identification in the 1930s
  • Beteiligte: Leyda, Julia
  • Erschienen: University of Texas Press, 2002
  • Erschienen in: Cinema Journal
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0009-7101; 1527-2087
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  • Beschreibung: <p>This essay argues that the black-audience musical westerns of the late 1930s attempted to reconfigure African American national identity in their casting but also by strategically using anachronism and geographical juxtaposition. These westerns created a dual present by using the trope of contemporary Harlem alongside the nineteenth-century setting, thereby ironically echoing the western expansionist movement in a cinematic African American West.</p>