• Fig. 31. Censored scene from The Emperor Jones 1933 film version when Smithers lights Jones’s cigarette. The Library of Congress restored this scene in 2002. Screenshot by Katie N. Johnson.
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Censored scene from The Emperor Jones where Smithers lights Jones’s cigarette

From Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway by Katie N. Johnson

  • Screen shot from The Emperor Jones, 1933. Robeson raises his shovel to strike the prison guard. The actual striking was censored out, creating an awkward jump cut.
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  • African American Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • American Studies
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
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  • 1933
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