Introduction: Nascent Evanescence: Photography, Race, and the Modernity of Movement
1. Literary Visibility: Modernist Racial Imaging
2. The Racialized “Film Century”: Blackness Seen Through the Photochemical Index
3. Seeing Claireece Seeing: Film Aesthetics, Poetic Narration, and Visible Selfhood in Lee Daniels’s Precious
4. What Distant Reading Sees of Race
Conclusion: Evanescence Stilled: The Contemporary Visual Encounter
Index