The following is a 'working' bibliography. This list is periodically updated as material on race movies, Oscar Micheaux, or Black American Cinema and BAC history becomes available.

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ESSAYS:


Baker, Houston A. "Spike Lee and the Commerce of Culture." In Black American Cinema. Manthia Diawara, ed. NY: Routledge, 1993. 154-76.


Baraka, Amiri. "Spike Lee at the Movies." In Black American Cinema. Manthia Diawara, ed. NY: Routledge, 1993. 145-53.


Bennett, Lerone. "The Emancipation Orgasm." Ebony 26 (Sept 1971): 106-16.


Bogle, Donald. "Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation. In Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. Valerie Smith, ed. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 13-24.


Brigham, William. "Whatup in the 'Hood'? The Rage of African-American Filmmakers." In States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence, and Social Change. Renee R. Curry and Terry L. Allison, eds. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 91-106.


Cripps, Thomas. "Hollywood Wins: The End of Race Movies." In Making Movies Black. Thomas Cripps. NY: Oxford UP, 1993. 126-150.


---. "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the Changing Politics of Genre Film." In Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism. Peter Lehman, ed. Tallahassee: Florida State UP, 1990. 238-61.


---. "Race Movies as Voices of the Black Bourgeoisie: The Scar of Shame." In Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. Valerie Smith, ed. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 47-60.


Diawara, Manthia. "Black American Cinema: The New Realism." In Black American Cinema. Manthia Diawara, ed. NY: Routledge, 1993. 3-25.


Dyer, Richard. "White." Screen 29.4 (1988): 44-64.


Farred, Grant. "Menace II Society: No Way Out for Boys in the Hood." In The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures. Laurence Goldstein, ed. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1996. 114-30.


Gaines, Jane. "The Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates: Two Tales of the American South." In Dixie Debates: Perspective on Southern Culture. Richard king and Helen Taylor, eds. NY: New York UP, 1996. 177-92.


Green, Dennis. "Tragically Hip: Hollywood and African American Cinema." Cineaste 20.4 (1994): 28-29.


Green, J. Ronald. "Twoness in the Style of Oscar Micheaux." In Black American Cinema. Manthia Diawara, ed.. NY: Routledge, 1993. 26-48.


Guerrero, Ed. "From ‘Birth’ to Blaxploitation." In Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Ed Guerrero. Temple UP, 1993.


---. "Framing Blackness: The African American Image in the Cinema of the Nineties." Cineaste 20.2 (1993): 24-31.


---. "A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age." In New American Cinema. John Lewis, ed. Durham: Duke UP, 1998. 328-52.


hooks, bell. "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators." In Black Looks. bell hooks. South End Press, 1992.


Lott, Tommy. "Hollywood and Independent Black Cinema." In Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Steve Neale and Murray Smith, eds. NY: Routledge, 1998. 211-28.


---. "A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema." In Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. Valerie Smith, ed. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 83-96.


Lubiano, Wahneema. "But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse." In Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. Valerie Smith, ed. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 97-122.


Masilela, Ntongela. "The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers." In Black American Cinema. Manthia Diawara, ed.. NY: Routledge, 1993.107-17.


---. "Women Directors of The Los Angeles School." In Black Women Film and Video Artists. Jacqueline Bobo, ed. NY: Routledge, 1998. 21-41.


Newton, Huey P. "He Won't Bleed Me." Black Panther 6 (Jan 19 1971): A-L.


Riggs, Marlon T. "Black Macho Revisitied" Reflections of a Snap! Queen." Black American Literature Forum 25.2 (1991).



Sklar, Robert, et al. "What Is the Right Thing? A Critical Symposium on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing." Cineaste 17.4 (1990):32-39.


Taylor, Clyde. "The Rebirth of the Aesthetic in Cinema." In The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. Daniel Bernardi, ed. Rutgers UP, 1996. 1-37.


---. "New U.S. Black Cinema." In Movies and Mass Culture. John Belton, ed. NY: Rutgers, 1996.


Thompson, Cliff. "The Devil Beats His Wife: Small Moments and Big Statements in the Films of Charles Burnett." Cineaste 23.2 (1997): 24-27.


Van Leer, David. "Visible Silence: Spectatorship in Black Gay and Lesbian Film." In Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. Valerie Smith, ed. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 157-82.


Wyatt, Justin. "The Formation of the Major Independent: Miramax, New Line and the New Hollywood." In Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Steve Neale and Murray Smith, eds. NY: Routledge, 1998. 74-90.


Yearwood, Gladstone. "The Emergence of the Black Independent Film Movement." In Black Film as a Signifying Practice, 1999.



BOOKS:


Belton, John, ed. Movies and Mass Culture. NY: Rutgers, 1996.


Bernardi, Daniel. The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of US Cinema. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1996.


Bobo, Jacqueline, ed. Black Women Film and Video Artists. NY: Routledge, 1998.


Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. 3rd ed. NY: Continuum, 1994.

Bowser, Pearl & Spence, Louise. Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, And His Audiences. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.


Boyd, Todd. Am I Black Enough For You? Popular Culture From the ‘Hood and Beyond. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997.


Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. Simon & Schuster, 1988.


Brigham, William. "Whatup in the 'Hood'? The Rage of African-American Filmmakers." In States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence, and Social Change. Eds. Renee R. Curry and Terry L. Allison. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 91-106.


Byerman, Keith E. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction. U of Georgia P, 1985.


Cham, Mbye B, et al, eds. Blackframes: Critical Perspectives On Black Independent Cinema. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.


Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought. NY: Routledge, 1991.


Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. NY: Oxford UP, 1977.


---. Black Film as Genre. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.


---. Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from WWII to the Civil Rights Era.. NY: Oxford UP, 1993.


Davis, Angela. Women, Race, and Class. 1981. Vintage, 1983.


Dent, Gina, ed. Black Popular Culture. Bay Press, 1992.


Diawara, Manthia, ed. Black American Cinema. NY: Routledge, 1993.


DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk, 1901. Vintage, 1990.


Dyson, Michael Eric. Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism. U of Minnesota P, 1993.


Gates, Henry Louis, ed., Black Literature and Literary Theory. Routledge, 1984.


---. "The Black Man’s Burden," in Black Popular Culture. Ed. Gina Dent.


George, Nelson. Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture. Harper Collins, 1992.


---. Blackface: Reflections on African Americans and the Movies. NY: HarperCollins, 1994.


Goldstein, Laurence, ed. The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1996.


Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for "Blackness". Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995.


Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993.


Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. Scribner’s, 1992.


Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1964. Ballantine, 1992.


hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. South End Press, 1992.


---. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. NY: Routledge, 1994.


---. Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies. NY: Routledge, 1996.


Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. Oxford UP, 1971.


Hughes, Langston. The Ways of White Folks, 1934. Vintage, 1990.


Hutchinson, George. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Harvard UP, 1995.


James, Darius. That's Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadassss ‘tude (Rated X by and All-Whyte Jury). NY: St. Martin’s, 1995.


Jhally, Sut. Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream. Boulder: Westview P, 1992.


Johnson, Maria V. "You Just Can't Keep A Good Woman Down: Alice Walker Sings the Blues." African American Review 30.2 (Summer 1996): 221-36.


Jones, G. William. Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found. Denton: U of North Texas, 1991.


King, Richard and Helen Taylor, eds. Dixie Debates: Perspective on Southern Culture. NY: New York UP, 1996.


Knopf, Marcy, ed. The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. Rutgers UP, 1993.


Leab, Daniel. From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.


Lehman, Peter, ed. Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism. Tallahassee: Florida State UP, 1990.


Lewis, David Levering, ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. Viking, 1994.


Lewis, Jon, ed. New American Cinema. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.


Lott, Tommy. The Invention of Race: Black Culture and the Politics of Representation. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999.


Lutz, Tom, and Suzanna Ashton, eds. These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s. Rutgers UP, 1996.


MacDonald, J. Fred. Blacks and White TV: African Americans in Television Since 1948. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Pub., 1992.


Martin, Martin T., ed. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1995.


Martinez, Gerald. What It Is; What It Was!: The Black Film Explosion of the 70s in Words and Pictures. NY: Hyperion, 1998.


May, Larry, ed. Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War. U of Chicago P, 1989.


Moon, Spencer. Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Westport, CT: Greenwoood Press, 1997.


Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination. Harvard UP, 1992.


Murray, James P. To Find an Image: Black Films from Uncle Tom to Super Fly. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.


Neale, Steve and Murray Smith, eds. Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. NY: Routledge, 1998.


Null, Gary. Black Hollywood: The Negro in Motion Pictures. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel P, 1975.


---. Black Hollywood: From 1970 to Today. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1993.


Pfeiffer, Kathleen. "Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." African American Review 30.3. (Fall 1996): 403-20.


Reed, Ishmael. Airing Dirty Laundry. Addison-Wesley, 1993


Reid, Mark. Redefining Black Film. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.


---. Post Negritude Visual and Literary Culture. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.


---. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.


Rhines, Jesse. Black Film, White Money. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1996.


Richards, Larry. African American Film Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.


Rosenberg, Norman, ed. In Our Times: America Since World War II. Prentice Hall, 1987.


Ross, Karen. Black and White Media: Black Images in Popular Film and Television. Cambridge, Mass.: Polity Press, 1996.


Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.


---. That’s Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.


Smith, Jessica, ed. Images of Blacks in American Culture. NY: Greenwood Press, 1988.


Smith, Valerie, ed. Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video. NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997.


---. Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings. NY: Routledge, 1998.


Snead, James A. White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side. Eds. Colin McCabe and Cornel West. NY: Routledge, 1994.


Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character. St. Martin’s, 1990.


Syaers, Sohnya, et. al., eds. The 60s Without Apology. U of Minnesota P, 1984.


Taylor, Clyde. The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract—Film and Literature. Bloomingotn: Indiana UP, 1998.


---. "The Rebirth of the Aesthetic in Cinema." In The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. Daniel Bernardi, ed. Rutgers UP, 1996.


Thurman, Wallace, ed. Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists. 1926. Rpt. The Fire Press, 1982.


Tyler, Bruce. "Racist Arts and Politics at the Turn of the Century." The Journal of Ethnic Studies 15.4 (1986): 85-103.


Walker, Alice, ed. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing. The Feminist Press, 1979.


Watkins, S. Craig. Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.


West, Cornel. Race Matters. NY: Vintage, 1994.


Willis, Sharon. High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997.


Wintz, Cary. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Rice UP, 1988.


Yearwood, Gladstone. Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues on Independent Black Filmmaking. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 1982.


Young, Lola. Fear of the Dark: Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema. NY: Routledge, 1996.