New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.

©1996

viii, 312 pages ; 20 cm.

text

unmediated

volume

Routledge classics

Routledge classics.

First published in Routledge classics in 2009. Originally published 1996.

Includes index.

Good girls look the other way -- Transgression and transformation: Leaving Las Vegas -- Exotica: breaking down to break through -- Crooklyn: the denial of death -- Cool cynicism: Pulp fiction -- Mock feminism: Waiting to exhale -- Kids: transgressive subject matter-reactionary film -- Artistic integrity: race and accountability -- Neo-colonial fantasies of conquest: Hoop dreams -- Doing it for daddy: black masculinity in the mainstream -- Thinking through class: paying attention to The attendant -- Back to the avant-garde: the progressive vision -- What's passion go to do with it? An interview with Marie-France Alderman -- The cultural mix: an interview with Wayne Wang -- Confession-filming family: an interview with artist and filmmaker Camille Billops -- A guiding light: an interview with Charles Burnett -- Critical contestations: a conversation with A.J. (Arthur Jaffa) -- The oppositional gaze: black female spectators -- Is Paris burning? -- "Whose pussy is this?" A feminist comment.

Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.

Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews.

African American motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews.

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