Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black FilmIn Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black film can or should represent the reality of black life or provide answers to social problems. Instead, he frames black film alongside literature, music,

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It’s time to push past the gatekeepers of what makes a movie “great” or “culturally significant” and get a broader view of what’s out there

Published by the Toronto International Film Festival

was not “discovered” until after Truffaut and Godard had broken onto the scene in 1959

and nerdiness

the shepherd of countless imaginations

working odd jobs to support his craft

This colored pencil set includes 12 skin toned crayons

A cheerful reminder that we are stronger together

Brought together in this book

Black TV tells the stories behind the pioneering series that led to this moment