A SEPARATE CINEMA Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters

As early as the 1920's a thriving black film industry existed in the United States. Independent film studios, many of them black owned, produced hundreds of movies, films with all black casts and amend at a black audiences. At the height of this boom, there were as many as 600 theaters on the race-movie circuit. A Separate Cinema is the first book to present the history of black-cast films through their posters, covering the years from 1915 to 1965 with two hundred full-color reproductions and a brief text that places the films in a social and cultural context. It includes more than 200 color posters which many are rare. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New.