Iverem's collection of reviews and commentary from seeingblack.com and various print venues surveys African Americans in film since Spike Lee's mid-1980s emergence. She considers "films that were decidedly Black in content and tone, movies featuring Black stars, other people's movies (OPM) . . . that were of some significance to [blacks]," and "happenings outside the Black movie universe [that were] relevant" to it. Thus she ranges from Lee's She's Gotta Have It and Jumpin' Jack Flash in 1986 to Lee's When the Levees Broke in 2006, inserting various think pieces and interviews along the way. Her take on an OPM like Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is incisive, and that piece's positioning next to the entry for Get Rich or Die Tryin' invites comparisons of the roads to wealth taken by Wal Mart's Waltons and the fictional movie's central character. An omnibus resource for black film studies. Mike Tribby"The work of African-American filmmakers continues to outpace critiques and commentary by African-American film critics. Esther Iverem closes this gap b providing the reader with reviews and comentary on a genre that, over the last twenty years, has moved from the margins to the mainstrem of American cinema" -- Warrington Hudlin, President of the Black Filmmaker Foundation
"Esther Iverem, a veteran of the media wars, brings a voice that is deft, insightful, and good-humored to the subject of African-American culture. In this groundbreaking collection, spanning twenty years of Black film, she proves that we have our own way of seeing-and appreciating-the movies." -- Tavis Smiley, Talk Show Host
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