Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
Contents
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. 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.