嗄merican film critic Elvis Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic documentary creates a definitive narrative of the Black revolution in ①⑨⑦0s cinema, from genre films to social realism—a work of painstaking scholarship that’s also thoroughly entertaining, an essential archival document and testament to a period of 嗄merican film history unlikely to be repeated.嗄merican film critic Elvis Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic documentary creates a definitive narrative of the Black revolution in ①⑨⑦0s cinema, from genre films to social realism—a work of painstaking scholarship that’s also thoroughly entertaining, an essential archival document and testament to a period of 嗄merican film history unlikely to be repeated.
