Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-255) and index.
Table of Contents
The Antebellum idyll and Hollywood's black-cast musicals -- Harlem is heaven: city motifs in race films from the early sound era -- Cotton in the city: the black ghetto, blaxploitation, and beyond -- Welcome to crooklyn: Spike Lee and the rearticulation of the Black urbanscape -- Out of the ghetto, into the hood: changes in the construction of Black city cinema -- Taking the a-train, the city, the train, and migration in Spike Lee's clockers.