An Introduction

Racquel Gates; Michael Boyce Gillespie

doi:10.1525/fq.2017.71.2.9

Article Information

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2017.71.2.9

Publication Date

Published online November 27, 2017.

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University of California Press Journals

Print ISSN

0015-1386

Online ISSN

1533-8630

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Author Information

Racquel Gates
Racquel Gates is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Culture at College of Staten Island, CUNY. Her research focuses on blackness and popular culture, with special attention to discourses of taste and quality. She has published in Film Quarterly, Television & New Media, and the anthologies Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and Saturday Night Live and American TV (Indiana University Press, 2013). Her book, Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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Michael Boyce Gillespie
Michael B. Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film at City College of New York, CUNY. His research and writing focuses on film theory, black visual and expressive culture, popular music, and contemporary art. He has published extensively and is the author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke University Press, 2016).