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This expansive and incisive critical companion will serve equally as the perfect starting point and standard reference for all viewers, whether they are already familiar with the film or coming to it for the first time.

Ivan Dixon's 1973 film The Spook Who Sat by the Door captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American black underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and cinematic contexts and presents a wealth of related materials, in...

Michael T. Martin is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is editor or coeditor of six anthologies, including (with Marilyn Yaquinto) Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies, and (with David C. Wall) The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: "Nothing But a Man." He also directed and coproduced the award winning fea...