We Gotta Have It : Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006

by Iverem, Esther

• ISBN13: 9781560259169
• ISBN10: 1560259167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-12
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

An essential look at the cultural dissemination of African-American in film with an exclusive interview with Spike Lee.

Author Biography

Esther Iverem is a former New York Times reporter. She has also reviewed film for The Washington Post and New York Newsday and, as the first film critic for the launch of BET.com, she is credited with bringing serious reviews of film from a black perspective to cyberspace. She is the author of The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home and has contributed to numerous anthologies. Visit her cyberzine, SeeingBlack.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction : covering the "new wave" of black film
Seeing black	p. 1
The new, black, hot ...	p. 13
Mo' betta?	p. 29
Isn't he lovely	p. 41
Black like me	p. 63
A place of our own	p. 81
Am I black enough for you?	p. 93
Our story, their story, whose story?	p. 111
History and mystery	p. 139
Fight the power	p. 153
Let the good times roll	p. 161
Acapulco 2000 and summer madness	p. 203
Urbanworld 2000 and black women on the verge of a film breakdown	p. 213
We're bamboozled and black stars rule	p. 229
Pimps, hos, brothers, and sisters	p. 259
Challenging the American culture machine-and not	p. 279
Epic lives and fantasy	p. 307
Battling words, beats, and story	p. 329
Big laughs and the unkindest cut	p. 353
Sanaa rules, drumline beats, Denzel directs	p. 373
Who's zoomin' who?	p. 387
Truth be told	p. 411
Film can be fierce	p. 425
A troublesome property	p. 441
Those bad mother (shut-yo-mouth!)	p. 463
Unbought and unbossed	p. 481
Big-boned cinema	p. 497
State of the union	p. 509
The changing same	p. 529
Get rich or make a real movie	p. 541
African-American lives	p. 553
Baller, shot caller	p. 567
Dreams and dreams deferred	p. 583
Epilogue : the lists	p. 597
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