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Black beginnings - from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to "The Birth of a Nation";spectatorship and capture in "King Kong" - the guilty look; "RaceMovies" as voice of the black bourgeoisie - "The Scar of Shame"; "TheScar of Shame" - skin colour and caste in black silent melodrama; ano-theory theory of contemporary black cinema; but compared to what? -reading realism, representation and essentialism in "School Daze", "Dothe Right Thing" and the Spike Lee discourse; what is this "black" inblack popular culture?; innocence and ambiguity in the films of CharlesBurnett; visible silence - spectatorship in black gay and lesbian film;Haile Gerima and the political economy of cinematic resistance; tellingfamily secrets - narrative and ideology in "Suzanne, Suzanne" byCamille Billops and James V. Hatch.