Boys, Boyz, Bois

Keith Harris is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Film and the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University. He completed his studies at the TISCH School of the Arts Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Dr. Harris' primary research interests are in visual culture (media, film, television and video, especially) and gender and race and ethnical constructs of gender and race found in visual cultural production. Other secondary interests are Kantian ethics and aesthetics.

• Preface.  Introduction.  1. Spooks in the Mirror: Racial Performativity and Black Cinema  2. "Stand up, boy!": Sidney Poitier, "Boy" and Filmic Black Masculinity  3. Super Bad: Jim Brown, Blaxploitation and the Coming of Boyz  4. Boyz, Boyz, Boyz: New Black Cinema and Black Masculinity  5. "Untitled": D'Angelo and the Visualization of the Black Male Body.  Conclusion.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index.