Table of Contents

I. Introduction (Janet K. Cutler and Phyllis R. Klotman)

II. Pioneers of Black Documentary Film (Pearl Bowser)

III. Military Rites and Wrongs: African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces (Phyllis R. Klotman)

IV. Documenting Social Issues: Black Journal, 1968-70 (Tommy Lee Lott)

V. Eyes on the Prize: Reclaiming Black Images, Culture, and History (Elizabeth Amelia Hadley)

VI. Paths of Enlightenment: Heroes, Rebels, and Thinkers (Clyde Taylor)

VII. Rewritten on Film: Documenting the Artist (Janet K. Cutler)

VIII. Uptown Where We Belong: Space, Captivity, and the Documentary of Black Community (Mark Frederick Baker and Houston A. Baker, Jr.)

IX. Discourses of Family in Black Documentary on Film (Valerie Smith)

X. Springing Tired Chains: Experimental Film and Video (Paul Arthur)

XI. Black "High-Tech" Documents (Erika Muhammad)

XII. The "I" Narrator in Black Diaspora Documentary (Manthia Diawara)

Appendices:

Interviews with Filmmakers
Filmography
Film/Videomaker Index
Bibliography

Promotional Information

First book to trace the evolution of the African American documentary film/video movement

About the Author

Phyllis R. Klotman is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Founder/Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University. Her publications include Screenplays of the African American Experience, Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography, and with Gloria J. Gibson, Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, and over 30 articles/essays on African American film and literature.

Janet K. Cutler is Professor of English and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary film program at Montclair State University, where she has taught film studies for twenty years. Her published work on film and video has appeared in such journals as Black Film Review, Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and Persistence of Vision.