Price: £80
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1949]
Stock Number: 66977
Noble (Peter)
The Negro in Films.
Description: FIRST EDITION, title-page illustrated with still from 'They Won't Forget' numerous photographs across 20 plates, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in silver, long ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket price-clipped, chipped and a little darkened, good
Publication Details: Skelton Robinson, n.d. [circa 1949]
Notes: An important assessment of Hollywood's 'unjust treatment of the Negro' in its first few decades, the contrast drawn with the more progressive depiction within British film, with a positive outlook for the future of the representation of black people within this medium. The Appendices include a bibliography and a filmography that demonstrate the author's thorough approach.
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