Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Introduction: Making movie magic. -- Good girls look the other way. -- Transgression and transformation: Leaving Las Vegas. -- Exotica: breaking down to break through. -- Crooklyn: the denial of death. -- Cool cynicism: Pulp fiction. -- Mock feminism: Waiting to exhale. -- Kids: transgressive subjects - reactionary film. -- Artistic integrity: race and accountability. -- Neo-colonial fantasies of conquest: Hoop dreams. -- Doing it for daddy: black masculinity in the mainstream. -- Thinking through class: paying attention to The attendant. -- Back to the avant-garde: the progressive vision. -- What's passion got to do with it?: an interview with Marie-France Alderman. -- The cultural mix: an interview with Wayne Wang. -- Confession - filming family: an interview with Camille Billops. -- A guiding light: an interview with Charles Burnett. -- Critical contestations: a conversation with A.J. (Arthur Jaffa) -- The oppositional gaze: black female spectators. -- Is Paris burning? -- "Whose pussy is this?": a feminist comment