... Through a close reading of the film Testament (1988), about a woman who makes a journey of return to Ghana after years of political exile, this chapter investigates montage strategies that are distinctive to the poetic handling of archival materials in the Black Audio Film Collective oeuvre...

...To Be Transparent<subtitle>Seeing Directions and Connections in Black Lesbian Film</subtitle> ...

... as performative act occur as a signifying menace, a threat to the categorical regimes of race and being. The chapter also addresses the relative absence of significant attention to Chameleon Street especially in relationship to the black film explosion of 1991. This involves reading the film’s inability to gain...

... Spike Lee Don Cheadle Black film blaxploitation Black Power ...

...Screenings Reviews of Black films, filmmakers, actors, and plays constitute the fourth section—Spike Lee's Bamboozled , blaxploitation movies, John Singleton’s Baby Boy , and Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle’s performance in a play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The final essay, on the documentary...

... This chapter discusses Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy (2008), exploring the film’s accounting of blackness, city, and historiographic rupture in the age of neoliberalism. The chapter argues that the film’s story of a black man and black woman who couple for a day after a one-night stand...