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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Another Litany for Survival
1 The Image of Common Sense
Film and Money
Antonio Gramsci and Common Sense
Affectivity
2 In the Interval
“How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?”
“I Wait for Me”
Cinematic Machines and Representation
3 “In Order to Move Forward”
The LA Filmmakers, the Black Arts Movement, and Questions of Third Cinema
A Colonized Sensorium
Returning to the (Cinematic) Past
The Black is a Black Man
4 “We’ll Just Have to Get Guns and Be Men”
Seize the Time
The Whole World is Watching
The End of Silence
The Revolution Will (Not) Be Televised
“My Name is Peaches”
5 “A Black Belt in Bar Stool”
Images of Value
Blaxploitation and Common-Sense Black Nationalism
Pam Grier’s Blaxploitation Films
The Butch Problem
“Someday We’ll…”
Postscript on Pam Grier and the L Word
6 “What’s Up with That? She Don’t Talk?”
Black Butch Masculinity and Ghettocentric Common Sense
Cleo’s Spectacular Death
“What’s Up with That? She Don’t Talk?” the Black Femme Function
“Prove it on Me”: Black Lesbian Butch-Femme
Ursula and the Out-of-Field
7 Reflections on the Black Femme’s Role in the (Re)production of Cinematic Reality
The Cinematic Community of “Slaves”
Eve’s Bayou
Notes
Introduction
1 The Image of Common Sense
2 In the Interval
3 Haile Gerima’s Sankofa
4 Black Revolutionary Women
5 Blaxploitation, Surplus, the L Word
6 Black Lesbian Butch-Femme
7 Reflections on Black Femme
Bibliography
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