![]() She illuminates many other films, about which she writes with easy familiarity and complete authority." -J. Massood provides a much-needed innovative framework for understanding the complex development of African American film culture." -Jacqueline Stewart, Assistant Professor English, Cinema & Media Studies, African & African American Studies, University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity "Massood's interpretive discussions of the films are clearly written and convincing she makes an important original point about the ending of Do the Right Thing, probably the most discussed African American film-and ending-of all time. Instead, Paula Massood demonstrates how the urban has functioned as a central organizing trope in the articulation of Black culture, progress, protest and subjectivity. ![]() ![]() "Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse." Ethnic and Racial Studies "Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal "the city" as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films. ![]()
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