Michael Boyce Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film 1
1. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque 17
2. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street and Black Performativity 51
3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): Deep Cover and Modalities of Noir Blackness 83
4. Black Maybe: Medicine for Melancholy, Place, and Quiet Becoming 119
Coda. Destination Out 157
Notes 161
Bibliography 203
Index 223
