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The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video games, and other media, the authors show how spaces-from the large and fantastical to the intimate and virtual-are shaped by the social interactions and intersections staged within them. The highly teachable essays include analyses of media represen...

The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video games, and other media, the authors show how spaces-from the large and fantastical to the intimate and virtual-are shaped by the social interactions and intersections staged within them. The highly teachable essays include analyses of media represen...

Spike Lee's films have raised a multitude of questions about cinema, from attempts to outline the nature, or "essence, " of a black cinematic aesthetics, to a revisioning of American film as a whole. The essays in this book will encourage a consideration of the depth and complexity of Spike Lee's career.

Making a Promised Land" examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the "Mecca of the New Negro" became a battleground in the struggle ...

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Examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. It analyses how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which Harlem, became a battleground in the struggles to define African American politics, aesthetics, and citiz...

Paula J. Massood is Associate Professor of Film Studies, Department of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and author of Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (Temple).

Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.