Expanding the Black Film Canon : Race and Genre Across Six Decades.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Coming Attractions -- 1. I Ain't Fit to Live with No More: Nothing But a Man Revisited -- 2. "Hey, Where Are the White Women At?": The Presentation of Racism and Resistance in Blazing Saddles -- 3. Harlem Nights, Awkward Framing, and Complicated Gender -- 4. Who's the Real Gangsta?: The Glass Shield and the Politics of Black Communities and Police Relations -- 5. "If You're Going to Tell People the Truth . . . Make Them Laugh": C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as Mockumentary and Truth-Telling -- 6. Ladies First: Ava DuVernay and Black-Female-Centered Narratives -- 7. Who's the Hero of the Piece?: Hollywood's Representation of Jackie Robinson's Legacy -- 8. Are We Allowed to Be Children?: Black Teen Films, Trauma, and the Race to Adulthood -- Post-Credit Sequence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

The first book to cover the full sweep of the past sixty years of black film, including many which have been underrepresented in film scholarship.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.