Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in the Spook Who Sat by the Door (Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora) - Tapa dura

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 feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace, distributed by Third World Newsreel. David C. Wall is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Studies at Utah State University at Utah State University. He edited (with Michael T. Martin) The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: "Nothing But a Man." Other recent work can be found in Nineteenth-Century Studies and A Companion to the Historical Film. Marilyn Yaquinto is Associate Professor of Communication and Interdisciplinary Studies at Truman State University in Missouri. She is author of Pump `Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and editor (with Michael T. Martin) of Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Dr. Yaquinto is a former journalist for the Los Angeles Time and shares in its Pulitzer Prize for spot news coverage of the 1992 LA riots linked to the Rodney King incident.