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Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism (2022)
Defying Every Label
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Actress > Janelle Monáe
The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins (2021)
A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Kathleen Collins
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism (2021)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Actress > Josephine Baker
Eddie Green (2016)
The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Director > Eddie Green
Sidney Poitier (2014)
Man, Actor, Icon
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
Halle Berry (2013)
A Biography of an Oscar-Winning Actress
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Subject: Actress > Halle Berry
James Edwards (2009)
African American Hollywood Icon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > James Edwards
Oscar Micheaux (2008)
The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux, A Biography (1999)
Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker
Publisher: Dakota West Books
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television (2022)
by Bob McCann
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Hollywood Black (2019)
The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
by Donald Bogle
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (2018)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Countries > United States
The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood (2002)
Publisher: Facts on File
Trying to Get Over (2016)
African American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
by Keith Corson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema (2015)
by S. Torriano Berry and Venise T. Berry
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Countries > United States
Frame by Frame III (2007)
A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: On Films > Film selections
African American Films Through 1959 (2005)
A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
Black Directors in Hollywood (2003)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Frame by frame II (1997)
a filmography of the African American image, 1978-1994
by Phyllis Rauch Klotman and Gloria J. Gibson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Black Action Films (1989)
Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 235 Theatrical and Made-For-Television Releases
by James Robert Parish and George H. Hill
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Frame by Frame I (1979)
A Black Filmography
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Sacred Sisterhoods (2025)
A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film
Dir. Imani M. Cheers
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Post-Soul Cinema of Kasi Lemmons (2023)
Dir. Dianah Wynter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Kasi Lemmons
Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer (2022)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
Black Panther (2021)
Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Black Panther
Why Wakanda Matters (2021)
What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication
Dir. Sheena C. Howard
Publisher: Smart Pop
Subject: One Film > Black Panther
Expanding the Black Film Canon (2019)
Race and Genre across Six Decades
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Subject: Sociology
Celluloid Chains (2019)
Slavery in the Americas through Film
Dir. Rudyard J. Alcocer, Kristen Block and Dawn Duke
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Black Masculinity on Film (2017)
Native Sons and White Lies
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television (2016)
by David L. Moody and Rob Prince Obey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Poitier Revisited (2014)
Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age
Dir. Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
Under a Bad Sign (2011)
Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
Faces in the Mirror (2010)
Oscar Micheaux & Spike Lee
by John Howard
Publisher: Fireside Books
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee
The Witch's Flight (2007)
The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
by Kara Keeling
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Theory
Representing Blackness (1997)
Issues in Film and Video
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
The World of Black Film (2026)
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films
by Ashley Clark
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Subject: On Films > Film selections
The Films of John Singleton (2025)
Dir. Daniel Dufournaud
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > John Singleton
Black Film (2026)
A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Reel Freedom (2025)
Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York City
by Alyssa Lopez
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
Afrofuturism in Black Panther (2025)
Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness
Dir. Renée T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: One Film > Black Panther
From Havana to Hollywood (2025)
Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture (2024)
Dir. Rebecca Kumar and Seulghee Lee
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Colorization (2024)
One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
by Wil Haygood
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Sociology
African American Female Leadership in Major Motion Pictures (2024)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Intersecting Aesthetics (2023)
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
Dir. Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron and Ellen C. Scott
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Black Rodeo (2023)
A History of the African American Western
by Mia Mask
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
The Black Guy Dies First (2023)
Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Visitation (2022)
The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Regeneration Black Cinema (2022)
1898-1971
by Doris Berger
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Subject: Countries > United States
Pleading the Blood (2022)
Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: One Film > Ganja & Hess
Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen (2021)
One Dime at a Time
by Susan Delson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Sociology
From Street to Screen (2020)
Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep
Dir. Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: One Film > Killer of Sheep
Black Women Filmmakers and Black Love on Screen (2020)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
A Piece of the Action (2019)
Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood
by Eithne Quinn
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Hollywood Jim Crow (2019)
The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Subject: Sociology
African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness (2019)
Dir. Mark A. Reid
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers (2018)
and the Art of Resistance
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Black Male Frames (2018)
African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
by Roland Leander Williams Jr.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Subject: Sociology
Sisters in the Life (2018)
A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making
Dir. Yvonne Welbon
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Boyz N the Hood (2018)
Shifting Hollywood Terrain
by Joi Carr
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: One Film > Boyz N the Hood
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before (2018)
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Sociology
Beyond Blaxploitation (2016)
Dir. Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters Jr.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Film Blackness (2016)
American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Militant Visions (2016)
Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Projecting Race (2016)
Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Film
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle (2016)
African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
Dir. Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Stealing the Show (2016)
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks (2016)
An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
by Donald Bogle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > United States
From Sweetback to Super Fly (2015)
Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Subject: Countries > United States
L.A. Rebellion (2015)
Creating a New Black Cinema
Dir. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Uplift Cinema (2015)
The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
A Taste for Brown Sugar (2015)
Black Women in Pornography
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Beyond the Chinese Connection (2015)
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Cinema Civil Rights (2015)
Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Envisioning Freedom (2014)
Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
by Cara Caddoo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Sociology
Contemporary Black American Cinema (2014)
Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
Dir. Mia Mask
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Shaping the Future of African American Film (2014)
Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Economics
Making a Promised Land (2013)
Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Disney's Most Notorious Film (2012)
Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
by Jason Sperb
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: One Film > Song of the South
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s (2012)
Blackness and Genre
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood's African American Films (2011)
The Transition to Sound
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
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The Problem of the Color[blind] (2011)
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Sociology
Soul Searching (2011)
Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Sociology
Queer Pollen (2011)
White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Sociology
Lockstep and Dance (2010)
Images of Black Men in Popular Culture
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
African American Actresses (2010)
The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Red, White & (2010)
Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Divas on Screen (2009)
Black Women in American Film
by Mia Mask
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Sociology
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded (2008)
Black Women and the Moving Image Since 1970
by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver
Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Subject: General
Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas (2008)
Black Power Action Films
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Irish and African American Cinema (2008)
Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood Be Thy Name (2007)
African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Spirituality As Ideology In Black Women's Film And Literature (2005)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Subject: General
Migrating to the Movies (2005)
Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Black Magic (2004)
White Hollywood and African American Culture
by Krin Gabbard
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
With a Crooked Stick - The Films of Oscar Micheaux (2004)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Black City Cinema (2003)
African American Urban Experiences In Film
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema (2002)
by Norma Manatu
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Disintegrating the Musical (2002)
Black Performance and American Musical Film
Publisher: Duke University Press
Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema (2002)
From Micheaux to Morrison
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Returning the Gaze (2001)
A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949
by Anna Everett
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Straight Lick (2000)
The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Struggles for Representation (2000)
African American Documentary Film and Video
Dir. Phyllis Rauch Klotman and Janet K. Cutler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Color by Fox (1999)
The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora (1997)
Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture (1997)
by Mark A. Reid
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Sociology
Framing Blackness (1993)
The African American Image in Film
by Ed Guerrero
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
Black American Cinema (1993)
Dir. Manthia Diawara
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Making Movies Black (1993)
The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
Redefining Black Film (1993)
by Mark A. Reid
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Screenplays of the African-American Experience (1991)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Sociology
Slow Fade to Black (1977)
The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
From Sambo to Superspade (1975)
The Black experience in motion pictures
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Subject: Sociology
Black Oscars (2022)
From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Festivals
Supreme Actresses (2021)
Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Actor
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham (2019)
Dances in Literature and Cinema
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Actress > Josephine Baker
Separate Cinema (2014)
The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
Dir. John Kisch
Publisher: Reel Art Press
Sidney Poitier (2024)
The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward
Dir. John Malahy
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
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