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“You Couldn’t Even See”: Genre, “Thomasine and Bushrod,” and the Matter of Black Film
Nicholas Forster explores the question of how to define Black film through a close look at the 1974 film “Thomasine and Bushrod.”
Nicholas Forster
Nicholas Forster is a writer and lecturer in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He publishes a newsletter on acting and film called Looking at the Floor and is currently writing a biography of Bill Gunn.