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Cinema's Original Sin
D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477325483
Pub Date: December 13th, 2022
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.
Black Panther
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477325353
Pub Date: July 19th, 2022
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
An exploration of the artistic and political importance of a pioneering film.
All New, All Different?
A History of Race and the American Superhero
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477318973
Pub Date: November 5th, 2019
Format: Paperback
392 Pages
An eye-opening exploration of the relationship between racial attitudes and the evolution of the superhero in America, from Superman’s debut in 1938 through the Civil Rights era and contemporary reinventions.
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477318270
Pub Date: June 25th, 2019
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
A study of five graphic novels or memoirs that have reshaped the narrative of civil rights in America—and an examination of the format’s power to allow readers to participate in the memory-making process.
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477315231
Pub Date: March 1st, 2018
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
With in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Not Your Average Zombie
Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477313305
Pub Date: September 5th, 2017
Format: Paperback
236 Pages
Analyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the “extra-ordinary” undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living.
Jazz and Cocktails
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477312278
Pub Date: March 21st, 2017
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
With insightful analyses of the contributions of jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Chico Hamilton, and John Lewis, this book considers the complex roles of jazz and race in classic film noir.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477311776
Pub Date: February 14th, 2017
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
Trying to Get Over
African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309087
Pub Date: March 22nd, 2016
Format: Paperback
287 Pages
This groundbreaking text focuses on the post-blaxploitation era of American filmmaking and illuminates contributions of directors who, although largely unrecognized, have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.
Race on the QT
Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9780292772366
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
Asserting that race has been the cornerstone of most of Quentin Tarantino’s films, this book uncovers the racial politics, progressive and regressive, hidden on the “QT” in the director’s work from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction to Inglourious Basterds a
Cinema's Original Sin
D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477325483
Pub Date: December 13th, 2022
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Black Panther
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477325353
Pub Date: July 19th, 2022
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
All New, All Different?
A History of Race and the American Superhero
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477318973
Pub Date: November 5th, 2019
Format: Paperback
392 Pages
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477318270
Pub Date: June 25th, 2019
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477315231
Pub Date: March 1st, 2018
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
Not Your Average Zombie
Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477313305
Pub Date: September 5th, 2017
Format: Paperback
236 Pages
Jazz and Cocktails
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477312278
Pub Date: March 21st, 2017
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477311776
Pub Date: February 14th, 2017
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
Trying to Get Over
African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309087
Pub Date: March 22nd, 2016
Format: Paperback
287 Pages
Race on the QT
Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9780292772366
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
184 Pages