Representing blackness: issues in film and video

Abstract

Black beginnings - from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation spectatorship and capture in King Kong - the guilty look Race Movies as voice of the bourgeoisie - The Scar of Shame The Scar of Shame - skin colour and caste in silent melodrama a no-theory theory of contemporary cinema but compared to what? - reading realism, representation and essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing and the Spike Lee discourse what is this black in popular culture? innocence and ambiguity in the films of Charles Burnett visible silence - spectatorship in gay and lesbian film Haile Gerima and the political economy of cinematic resistance telling family secrets - narrative and ideology in Suzanne, Suzanne by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch.