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For obscure reasons, narrative works considered landmarks in American culture for technical innovation and/or popular success have often importantly involved the portrayal of African Americans.
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ersatz mythology, blood pyramid, colonial love, ethnographic cinema, fight pictures, prizefight films, blackface caricature, biographical legend, race movies, sentimental power, narrative integration, salvage ethnography, ethnographic film, early cinema, narrative system, parallel editing, family discourse, highbrow culture
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New York, United States, Madame Butterfly, San San, Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull, African American, The Cheat, Los Angeles, University of California Press, Jack Johnson, Custer's Last Fight, Moving Picture World, Oxford University Press, Lafcadio Hearn, The Symbol of the Unconquered, Van Allen, Fool's Paradise, Library of Congress, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Famous Players, Southern California, The Typhoon, Motion Picture News
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