White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith’s The B
This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President Geo
American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on t
As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to con