Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era

Covering the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Examining this era through the prism of popular culture, Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing ideas about race. Cripps contends that from the liberal rhetoric of the war years--marked as they were by the propaganda catchwords "brotherhood" and "tolerance"--came movies that defined a new African-American presence both in film and in American society at large. He arg…