Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film 90s Applying equal rigour to preparation

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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film 90s Applying equal rigour to preparationIn 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,