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Table of Contents: “…Right on, as in right on time / Melvin Van Peebles -- Preface / David Lee -- Five for five / Spike Lee -- She's gotta have it : thoughts on She's gotta have it / Terry McMillan -- School daze : programming with School daze / Toni Cade Bambara -- Do the right thing : Do the right thing : film and fury / Nelson George -- Mo' better blues : one meaning of Mo' better blues / Charles Johnson -- Jungle fever : guess who's not coming to dinner? …”

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: Adapting Black masculinity in Melvin Van Peebles's "The story of a three day pass" /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death and the Mise-en-Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema -- Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier -- The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door -- Conclusion: After Images.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Pitre's nominal aphasia : barbershops & whorehouses : Don Henley -- Don Budge : playing with wands : barbershops & whorehouses : Bobby McFerrin -- Steppenwolf : brilliant eccentrics : barbershops & whorehouses : Simon and Garfunkel -- Kenny G : barbershops & whorehouses : Andy Bey -- Miles Davis : a mouthful of words : barbershops & whorehouses : Ice-T -- Freddy Heineken : he brew : barbershops & whorehouses : Brad Mehldau -- serious music : kulture in the goyish Alps : barbershops & whorehouses : Roswell Rudd -- Melvin Van Peebles : gone fishing : barbershops & whorehouses : Steve Lacy -- Wayne Shorter : beyond a smile on a face -- barbershops & whorehouses : Gil Evans -- Orson Welles : patched and peeled in Mogador : barbershops & whorehouses : Dizzy Gillespie -- the International Herald Trombone.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Weiner and John Cline -- Part I: Realism(s) -- The neorealist transgressions of Pier Paolo Pasolini / Bill Landis -- From Chicago to Watts by way of Paris and Hollywood : art-film influence on Melvin Van Peebles' early features / Jonathan Hartmann -- At the heart of the heart of the world : Guy Maddin in the 21st century / John Bloomfield -- Part II: Italian Horror/Gialli -- Menopausal monsters and sexual transgression in Argento's art horror / Donna de Ville -- "The more you rape their senses, the happier they are" : a history of Cannibal holocaust / Andy DeVos -- A postcard from the grindhouse : exotic landscapes and Italian holidays in Lucio Fulci's Zombie and Sergio Martino's Torso / Stefano Baschiera and Francesco Di Chiara -- "Body in a bed, body growing dead" : uncanny women in Joe D'Amato's Italian exploitation cinema / Xavier Mendik -- Part III: New York state of mind -- Bernie's "deathwish": history and transgression in New York City / John Cline -- Troma entertainment: the boobs, blood, and brains of reel independence / Rebekah McKendry -- Exploitation films and success : the half-told melodramas of Andy Milligan / Kevin John Bozelka -- Part IV: Extreme European cinema -- B is for bile, blood and bones : on corporeal bodies in the films of Peter Greenaway / Eric Levy -- The films of the Vienna Action Group / Stephen Barber -- Reveries of blood and sand : the cinema of Jean Rollin / Gerard Dapena -- A shadow poet : Michael Haneke / David Sterritt -- Part V: Culture at the margins -- Through the looking glass darkly : considering theories of Nazi film and concepts of transgression / Lynne Fallwell -- Christian scare films : the unlikely pairing of director Ron Ormond and preacher Estus Pirkle / Jim Ridley -- Stray cat rock : the politics of Nikkatsu's "bad youth" movies of 1970 / David Hopkins -- Part VI: Contemporary film -- Flirting with subversion : mainstream filmmaking, transgression, and the case of Joel Schumacher's 8MM / Steffen Hantke -- Hated : GG Allin & the Murder junkies, Scum rock, and the unlikely career of Todd Phillips / Johannes Schonherr -- Cinema of regression : Grindhouse (2007) and the limits of the spectatorial imaginary / David Lerner.…”

Table of Contents: “…Williams, James Baldwin, Sam Greenlee, Melvin Van Peebles, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez -- Bureau Writing after Hoover: Dudley Randall, Ai, Audre Lorde, Danzy Senna, and Gloria Naylor -- Appendix: FOIA Requests for FBI Files on African American Authors Active from 1919 to 1972 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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