Returning the gaze

In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by reviving the extensive and all but forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much of the existing scholarship on blacks and the cinema focuses on image studies and stereotypical representations, this work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Culling black newpapers, magazines, scholarly and political journals, and monographs, Everett has produced an unparalleled investigation of…