6. Love and Black Privacy: Watching John Singleton with James Baldwin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Introduction: Singleton Agonistes 1
7. Part I Singleton’s Themes and Tropes
8. 1. Failed Mothers in Boyz N the Hood and Baby Boy 25
9. 2. Can Daddy Save the Day? On John Singleton’s Use of Realist Fantasy in Boyz N the Hood, Baby Boy, and Rosewood 46
10. Part II Singleton’s Antiracist Politics
11. 3. Black Men Loving Black Men and the Centrality of Women in John Singleton’s Films: A BlackCrit, Queer, Feminist Analysis 69
12. 4. Running from Predation: Hush Harbors and the Place of Black Student (Bodies) in Higher Learning 91
13. Part III Singleton and African American Literature
14. 5. “Hope to God There’s Another Place that’s Better than This”: Blues Spaces and The Pittsburgh Cycle in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood and Baby Boy 115
15. 6. Love and Black Privacy: Watching John Singleton with James Baldwin 136
16. Part IV Singleton and History
17. 7. The Shadow of the Past: Hauntology, Melancholia, and Rosewood as Reparative Narrative 163
18. 8. “The Ghetto Game of Thrones”: Snowfall, Auteur Theory, and Historiographic Television 182
19. Index 201