After the war, the ideologies of both black activism and integrationism persisted, resulting in the 'message movie' era of Pinky, Home of the Brave, and No Way Out, a form of racial politics that anticipated the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the results were an expanded black imagery on the screen during the war-in combat movies such as Bataan, Crash Dive, and Sahara musicals such as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky and government propaganda films such as The Negro Soldier and Wings for this Man (narrated by Ronald Reagan!). He argues that the war years, more than any previous era, gave African-American activists access to centers of cultural influence and power in both Washington and Hollywood. Cripps contends that from the liberal rhetoric of the war years-marked as it was 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. Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing ideas about race.
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It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood.
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