BLACK FILMMAKING

In this section you will find a selection of the scholarship on Black films and Black filmmaking. This list is hardly complete; it is just a sample of the research and work that is available

Baker, Christina N. Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018.

Benshoff, Harry M. “Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?Cinema Journal, 39.2 (Winter 2000): 31-50.

Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women Film and Video Artists. New York; London: Routledge, 1998.

Bowser, Pearl, Gaines, Jane, and Musser, Charles (eds). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Diawara, Manthia. Black American Cinema. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Field, Allyson Nadia, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart (eds). L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.

Foster, Gwendolyn A. “Julie Dash: I think we need to do more than try to document history.” in Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. Pp. 43-72.

Gillespie, Michael Boyce. Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2016.

Green, J. Ronald. With a Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheaux. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Hamlet, Janet D. and Coleman, Robin R. Means (eds). Fight the Power: the Spike Lee Reader. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Alternate link via Internet Archive.

Kendi, Ibram X. “This Is the Black Renaissance.” Time Magazine. 3 February 2021.

Klotman, Phyllis R. Screenplays of the African American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Klotman, Phyllis R and Cutler, Janet K. (eds). Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Lawrence, Novotny. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Luckett, Josslyn. “The Daughters Debt: How Black Spirituality and Politics Are Transforming the Televisual Landscape.” Film Quarterly, 72. 4 (2019): 9–17.

Mask, Mia. Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Pinedo, Isabel. “Get Out: Moral Monsters at the Intersection of Racism and the Horror Film”. In Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture, eds. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Stacy Rusnak. Palgrave Macmillan: 2020. Pp. 95–114.

Reid, Mark A. Redefining Black Film. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

Richards, Larry. African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1998.

Roth, Elaine. “This Is America: Race, Gender and the Gothic in Get Out (2017)”. In Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion, eds. Richard J. Hand and McRoy Jay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 206-217.

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