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Fire and Desire (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Fire and Desire (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and
parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films
for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly
anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an
ambitious historical and theoretical agenda.
"Fire and Desire" offers a penetrating look at the black
independent film movement during the silent period. Gaines traces
the profound influence that D. W. Griffith's racist epic "The Birth
of a Nation" exerted on black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux,
the director of the newly recovered "Within Our Gates." Beginning
with "What Happened in the Tunnel," a movie that played with race
and sex taboos by featuring the first interracial kiss in film,
Gaines also explores the cinematic constitution of self and other
through surprise encounters: James Baldwin sees himself in the face
of Bette Davis, family resemblance is read in Richard S. Robert's
portrait of an interracial family, and black film pioneer George P.
Johnson looks back on Micheaux.
Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white
and black, "Fire and Desire" ultimately questions the category of
"race movies" itself.
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