Thomas Cripps

Biographic Data

ID679908
NAMEThomas Cripps
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMECripps
SIGNATURECRIPPS T
AFFILIATIONSMorgan State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX3

  • Walter's Thing: The Naacp's Hollywood Bureau of 1946—A Cautionary Tale

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…2005References: 2

    For a quarter of a century, from its founding years, the NAACP stood against pejorative stereotyping in the movies, but with only sporadic success. Then during World War II, the goals of the organization coincided with the war aims of the Allies. Walter White of the NAACP grasped an opportunity—to affect movies at their source by means of a "Hollywood bureau" rather than be restricted to the single tactic of censorship. White's attempt, when anal…

  • Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle

    Thomas Cripps, Allison GrahamARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

  • The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media Marcia Landy Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision Natalie Zemon Davis

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEThe Public Historian2002

  • Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949

    Thomas Cripps, Anna EverettARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 2

    The author of Returning the Gaze has set out to, and indeed succeeded in, writing a history of movies without actually taking up any movies. On its face, this would seem unpromising stuff, sort of like writing about umpires instead of baseball. Yet the result is an interesting contribution to the ever-evolving literature on the subject of African Americans and their historic relationship as subjects, objects, makers, and viewers to the medium of …

  • The First Black Actors on the Great White Way

    Thomas Cripps, Susan Curtis et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Taken together, the two books reviewed here form a history of a neglected period of African American theatrical history: The two decades between Booker T. Washington's Cotton States Exposition speech in 1895 and the coming of the Great War. The age was startling in its energetic motion: Blacks moved north; cotton moved west; in Cuba the nation won its place among the imperialist powers; movies altered the rhythms of urban life; the fiftieth anniv…

  • Sam the Piano Player: The Man Between

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…2000References: 3

    Bosley Crowther in the New York Times (New York Times Directory 76) and James Agee in The Nation (Agee 29) in reviewing Casablanca gave Sam the piano player (Dooley Wilson) a line of type, the former praising him as a “Negro 'find'” and the latter finding him merely “a colored pianist whose name I forget.” Their two readings of Wilson's performance–either as a centrally placed figure or as only an incidental character who was, said Agee, “a lot o…

  • I'll Make Me a World

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article I'll Make Me a World. Prod. by Henry Hampton. Blackside, Inc., in association with Thirteen/WNET New York, 1999. 360 mins. (Blackside, Inc., Plympton St., Boston, MA 02118) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1144–1146, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675443 Published: 01 De…

  • Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

    Thomas Cripps, W T Lhamon et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. By W. T. Lhamon Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 269 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-74711-9.) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1593–1594, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568317 Published: 01 March 1999

  • Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot

    Thomas Cripps, Michael RoginARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. By Michael Rogin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi, 339 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20407-7.) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1462a–1463, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953022 Published:…

  • Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking & Society before Television

    Gregory D Black, Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking & Society before Television. By Thomas Cripps. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 270 pp. Cloth, $38.50, ISBN 0-8018-5315-X. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8018-5316-8.) Get access Gregory D. Black Gregory D. Black University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, Decem…

  • Statement by Thomas Cripps, Morgan State University, Baltimore

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…1996

  • Historical Truth: An Interview with Ken Burns

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995

    Over a year and a half ago, the editor of the AHR extended an invitation to Ken Burns to write an essay for the centennial issue of the journal. Burns was asked to discuss the changing nature of historical truth during the course of the century following the first issue of the AHR. When the press of his film work prevented Burns from contributing an original piece of writing, he agreed to be interviewed, and David Ransel sought my services as the…

  • The absent presence in American civil war films

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…1994Cited by: 1

  • Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era

    John B Wiseman, Thomas CrippsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965: Essays and Reflections

    Thomas Cripps, August Meier et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era

    Daniel J Leab, Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. By Thomas Gripps. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii, 382 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-19-503773-1. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-507669-9.) Get access Daniel J. Leab Daniel J. Leab Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…

  • From Harlem to Hollywood: The Struggle for Racial and Cultural Democracy, 1920-1943

    Thomas Cripps, Bruce M TylerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article From Harlem to Hollywood: The Struggle for Racial and Cultural Democracy, 1920–1943 Get access From Harlem to Hollywood: The Struggle for Racial and Cultural Democracy, 1920–1943. By Tyler Bruce M.. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. xiv + 243 pp. Illustration, notes. $39.00.) Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…

  • Making Movies Safe for Democracy

    Thomas Cripps, Leonard J Leff et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Courtship and Movies: Not at All an Odd Couple

    Thomas Cripps, Beth Bailey et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1989

  • Thomas Cripps Responds to Jane Gaines

    Thomas CrippsARTICLECinema Journal1988

  • The Hollywood Studio System

    Thomas Cripps, Douglas Gomery et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1987Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The Hollywood Studio System. By Douglas Gomery. (New York: St. Martin's, 1986. xii + 213 pp. $25.00.) Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America, 1922–1951. By Graham Petrie. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. xii + 257 pp. $29.95.) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Morgan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, Marc…

  • A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s Nick Roddick

    Thomas CrippsARTICLEJournal of American History1985

    Journal Article A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s. By Nick Roddick. (London: British Film Institute, 1983. viii + 332 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, filmography, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.95; paper, $13.95.) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Morgan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, …

  • Chronicling the Folklore of Racism

    Thomas Cripps, William L Van DeburgARTICLEReviews in American History1984

  • The Social History of Movies

    Thomas Cripps, Larry MayARTICLEReviews in American History1981

  • Television Fraud: The History and Implications of the Quiz Show Scandals

    Thomas Cripps, Kent AndersonARTICLEJournal of American History1980

    Journal Article Television Fraud: The History and Implications of the Quiz Show Scandals. By Kent Anderson. (Westport: Greenwood, 1978. xii + 226 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95.) Get access Thomas Cripps Thomas Cripps Morgan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Page 988, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887736 Publishe…