The seminal essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independence cinema. Among the topics discussed are racial stereotypes, critiques of that discourse, important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and black, gay and lesbian film and video.
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blaxploitation era films, black filmmaking practices, brutal black buck, minority autobiography, black action films, black cinema, race movies, black independent films, black spectatorship, black popular culture, black independent cinema, documentary impulse, black gay men, black viewer, domestic melodrama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, King Kong, The Scar of Shame, Spike Lee, School Daze, Baby Brother, United States, Third Cinema, Tongues Untied, Slow Fade, Los Angeles, Kobena Mercer, Isaac Julien, Killer of Sheep, Thomas Cripps, Village Voice, The Scar of Shaine, Harlem Renaissance, Carl Denham, Eddie Murphy, Manthia Diawara, Michele Wallace, Old South, Queer Looks New!
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African American, New York, King Kong, The Scar of Shame, Spike Lee, School Daze, Baby Brother, United States, Third Cinema, Tongues Untied, Slow Fade, Los Angeles, Kobena Mercer, Isaac Julien, Killer of Sheep, Thomas Cripps, Village Voice, The Scar of Shaine, Harlem Renaissance, Carl Denham, Eddie Murphy, Manthia Diawara, Michele Wallace, Old South, Queer Looks New!
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- The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, director (Rutgers Films in Print) by Robert Lang on 9 pages
- Slow Fade to Black (Galaxy Books) by Thomas Cripps on 6 pages
- Isaac Julien by Kobena Mercer on 5 pages
- Black Film As Genre by Thomas Cripps on 4 pages
- King Kong by Edgar Wallace on 4 pages
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- Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings by Valerie Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Roll over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) by Robert Miklitsch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture (Thinking Through Cinema) by Vincent F. Rocchio on page 216, and Back Matter
- Screening Asian Americans by Peter X. Feng in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Race in Cyberspace by Beth Kolko on page 114, and page 115
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