• Biographies (6) • Encyclopedias (3) • Dictionaries (7) • Essays (6) • Studies (72) • Stories (1) • Writings (1)
• Biographies (2) • Encyclopedias (1) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (1) • Studies (35) • Stories (1) • Writings (0)
• Biographies (6 books)(2 books)
Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism (2022)
Defying Every Label
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Actor > 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: Actor > Josephine Baker
Sidney Poitier (2014)
Man, Actor, Icon
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
James Edwards (2009)
African American Hollywood Icon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > James Edwards
• Encyclopedias (3 books)(1 book)
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: Sociology
• Dictionaries (7 books)(1 book)
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
Frame by Frame I (1979)
A Black Filmography
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: On Films > Film selections
• Essays (6 books)(1 book)
Under a Bad Sign (2011)
Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
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
• Studies (72 books)(35 books)
Reel Freedom (2025)
Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York City
by Alyssa Lopez
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
From Havana to Hollywood (2025)
Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
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
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
Stealing the Show (2016)
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Publisher: University of California 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
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
Hollywood's African American Films (2011)
The Transition to Sound
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
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
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
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
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
• Stories (1 book)(1 book)
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham (2019)
Dances in Literature and Cinema
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Actor > Josephine Baker
• Writings (1 book)(0 book)
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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