Found insideThe essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still, turquoise lake, of cracking the ice before submerging, of floating under blue skies, of tangled weeds and murkiness, of cool, fresh, spring swimming - of facing past ... Big Screen Boston is the first book to take a comprehensive look at these movies, from Hollywood's visits to the city to the gritty homegrown "Beanstreets" movies of the late 1970s and the varied crop of 1990s independent films--more than ... Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Unruly Media is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across media and platform. 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