Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949

by Anna Everett

Book Overview

In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much of the existing scholarship on blacks and the cinema focuses on image studies and stereotypical representations, this work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326140
• ISBN13: 9780822326144
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"