Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: The New York Black Independents; 2:The Black Essai Film; 3: Ambiguities of Auteurship; 4: The Magical Marvellous Modern; 5: Sacred Doubles; 6: Film Across Drama and Art; 7: Black Feminist Culture and Black Masculinity; Afterword; List of Films; Bibliography