Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 • A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
2 • Beginnings
3 • Killer of Sheep (1977)
4 • My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
5 • To Sleep with Anger (1990)
6 • The Glass Shield (1994)
7 • Three Films for Young Adults and Families: Selma, Lord, Selma (1999), Finding Buck McHenry (2000), and Nightjohn (1996)
8 • The Wedding (1998)
9 • The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
10 • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
11 • Warming by the Devil’s Fire (2003)
12 • Namibia: Th e Struggle for Liberation (2007)
13 • Two Screenplays: Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) and Man in a Basket (2003)
14 • In His Element: Three Short Films and an Epilogue

Filmography
References
Index

About the Author

James Naremore is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and author of The Magic World of Orson Welles; Acting in the Cinema; More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts; On Kubrick; and An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema.

Reviews

"Written in an accessible style, Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge promises to make Burnett a more well-known filmmaker to the general public and perhaps, in its own minor way, might assist Burnett in financing future endeavors by providing him with wider recognition than he has received so far."
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