Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

Excellent book that makes an important contribution to a national conversation on caricatured and authentic portrayals of Black communities. Gillespie urges the reader to abandon a Quixotic quest for a one to one correspondence between onscreen and off screen lives. The four anchor films are hidden gems and advance marvelously this thesis about abandoning indexical illusions.

outstanding book to own and understand the Film industry for Black Americans