1st Edition
Black Cinema & Visual Culture Art and Politics in the 21st Century
Introduction - Artel Great and Ed Guerrero
1. The Afrofuture & Black Horror in Three Acts – Ed Guerrero
2. Feeling What I’m Seeing, Seeing What I’m Feeling – Herman Gray & Maya Iverson-Davis
3. Bury Me in the Ocean: Marvel’s Black Panther and the Politics of Performative Wokeness – Artel Great
4. Listening Rather for the Tone Than the Lyrics: A Memoire of Afrosurrealism – Terri Francis
5. The Philosophonic Labor of These Hands – Fred Moten
6. To Build a Table: The Rise of Tyler Perry in African American Cinema – Brandeise Monk-Payton
7. Streaming for Black Lives – Adrien Sebro
8. Out of Form into Being: Black Women Filmmakers and Experiments in Expansive Cinema – Michele Prettyman
9. Strangers in the Village: Black Independent Cinema in the 21st Century – Artel Great
10. Prison Notes: Cinematic Tales From the Black Gulag – Ed Guerrero
11. Future Rhythms in Afrofuturist Film – Ytasha L. Womack
Biography
Artel Great is the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in African American Cinema Studies and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at San Francisco State University. He is an Independent Spirit Award–nominated filmmaker, cultural critic, and Black cinema scholar. Dr. Great has written on film, race, and popular culture in both academic and popular publications.
Ed Guerrero is a film historian and Black cinema scholar. He has written extensively on Black movies and his influential books explore Black cinema, its critical discourse, and political economy. Dr. Guerrero has served on numerous editorial and professional boards including the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. He has also taught Cinema Studies and Africana Studies at New York University.
