1. Black American Cinema: The New Realism Manthia Diawara
2. "Twoness" in the Style of Oscar Micheaux J Ronald
Green
3. Fire and Desire: Race, Melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux Jane
Gaines
4. Oscar Micheaux: The Story Continues Thomas Cripps
5. The Black Writer in Hollywood, Circa 1930: The Case of Wallace
Thurman
Phyllis Klotman
6. Is Car Wash a Black Musical ? Richard Dyer
7. The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers Ntongela Masilela
8. Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye: Daughters of the
Dust and the
Black Independent Cinema Movement Toni Cade Bambara
9. Spike Lee at the Movies Amiri Baraka
10. Spike Lee and the Commerce of Culture Houston A. Baker,
Jr.
11. The Ironies of Palace-Subaltern Discourse Clyde Taylor
12. Looking for Modernism Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
13. Black Specatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance
Manthia Diawara
14. The Harlem Theatre: Black Film Exhibition in Austin, Texas:
1920-1973
Dan Streible
15. The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial
Buddy Films of the
Eighties Ed Guerrero
16. The Construction of Black Sexuality: Towards Normalizing the
Black Cinematic
Experience Jacquie Jones
17. Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film: Lost
Boundaries, Home of the Brave,
and The Quiet One Michele Wallace
18. Reading Through the Text: The Black Woman As Audience
Jacqueline Bobo
19. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks
Bibliography: Stephen M. Best