Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film Book cover type:Paperback Hope for Film captures the

Hope for Film captures the rebellious punk spirit of the indie film boom in 1990s New York City and its collapse two decades later to its technology-fueled regeneration and continuing streaming-based evolution

“Don’t block your blessings and potential opportunities by allowing the voices of other people to influence your actions

At times suspenseful

First published in France in 1949

and the relationships between body

Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film Book cover type:Paperback Hope for Film captures theIn 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,