Framing blackness: the African American image in film

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. From Birth To Blaxploitation: Hollywood's Inscription of Slavery 2. Slaves, Monsters, and Others: Racial Fragment, Metaphor, and Allegory on the Commercial Screen 3. The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation 4. Recuperation, Representation, and Resistance: Black Cinema through the 1980s 5. Black Film in the 1990s: The New Black Movie Boom and Its Portents Notes Bibliography Index