Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film spooky season or put condiments on it

or put condiments on it

Rossy de Palma

National Book Award-winning author of There’s Always This Year and A Little Devil in America

featuring a foreword by Ted Chiang

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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film spooky season or put condiments on itIn Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black film can or should represent the reality of black life or provide answers to social problems. Instead, he frames black film alongside literature, music,