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Hardcover in black pictorial paper. Light shelf wear and minor soiling to pages 8-9. 288 pp. Replete with black-and-white and full-color images on multi-color pages, including movie posters, historical photographs, and portraits. Includes a Foreword by American actress Whoopi Goldberg, eleven essays, ten case studies, interviews, and much more. From the back panel: "This book examines how Black film artists such as Bert Williams, Hattie McDaniel, and Oscar Micheaux, to name just a few, not only developed an enduring independent tradition but also transformed mainstream Hollywood by representing Black experiences in all their robust complexity." Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles from August 21, 2022 to April 9, 2023.