The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (review)

1. Mark Reid, “The Black Gangster Film,” in Film Genre Reader III, ed. Barry Keith Grant (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), 472. 2. Race films were movies produced by independent filmmakers for African American audiences during the 1920s and 1930s. Many small companies, some of which were black owned and operated, started in reaction to the demeaning depictions of black people. 3. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Harper, 1944). 4. The three first social problem films to focus on African Americans were Home of the Brave (1949), Pinky (1949), and Lost Boundaries (1949), with Home having a black man play one of leads.