This book explores the factors contributing to the under-representation of African American female directors in mainstream cinema leadership. It also unmasks th

"This book explores the factors contributing to the under-representation of African American female directors in mainstream cinema leadership. It also unmasks t

In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director,

In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project,