Description: Rediscovers and examines the lost history of African-American film criticism from the first half of the century.
Review Quotes: "Anna Everett moves African American film criticism and commentary from the margins to the center in this innovative, imaginative, and original book. Superbly researched and engagingly written, Returning the Gaze shows us the necessity of placing race at the center of the history of the American cinema, while at the same time making it clear that any adequate understanding of African American identity needs to acknowledge the centrality of cinema to the practices and processes of U.S. racial formation."--George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness and Time Passages