Table of contents:Making Movie Magic / 1. Introduction -- 2. Good Girls Look the Other Way -- Leaving Las Vegas / 3. Transgression and Transformation -- Breaking Down to Break Through / 4. Exotica -- the Denial of Death / 5. Crooklyn -- Pulp Fiction / 6. Cool Cynicism -- Waiting to Exhale / 7. Mock Feminism -- Transgressive Subject - Reactionary Film / 8. Kids -- Race and Accountability / 9. Artistic Integrity -- Hoop Dreams / 10. Neo-colonial Fantasies of Conquest -- Black Masculinity in the Mainstream / 11. Doing it for Daddy -- Paying Attention to The Attendant / 12. Thinking Through Class -- the Progressive Vision / 13. Back to the Avant-Garde -- 14. What's Passion Got to Do With It? - an interview with Marie France Alderman -- an interview with Wayne Wang / 15. The Cultural Mix -- an interview with Camille Billops / 16. Confession - Filming Family -- an interview with Charles Burnett / 17. A Guiding Light -- a conversation with A.J. (Arthur Jaffa). 19. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators / 18. Critical Contestations -- 20. Is Paris Burning? 21. Whose Pussy is This? - A Feminist Comment -- Index.