Professor Lisa Doris Alexander's releases new book on Black film canon

African-American Studies Profess, Lisa Doris Alexander, launches her new book, Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre across Six Decades.

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film" per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them.