INDEX of Armond White’s “The Resistance: Ten Years Of Pop Culture That Shook The World” Book.
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Armond White’s “The Resistance: Ten Years Of Pop Culture That Shook The World” covers the years 1984-1994
Overlook Press
Lewis Hollow Road
Woodstock, New York 12498
ISBN # 0-87951-586-4
A
A., Beth (MTV Real World roommate/participant), 400
A&M Records, 194, 195
Aaron (MTV Real World roommate/participant), 400
Paul Aaron, 372
ABBA (musical group), 334
Abbaesque (recording), 334
Diahann Abbott, 7
“A.B.C.” (Jackson Five song), 233
Paula Abdul (pop singer, dancer), 192
Abigail’s Party (Mike Leigh film), 390
Above The Rim (movie starring Tupac Shakur, Leon), 417
F. Murray Abraham, (actor’s performance in Bonfire Of The Vanities movie), 183
Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple film), 195
Academy Awards, 34, 97, 264, 279, 280
“Act Naturally” (country and western song), 72
ACT-UP (organization), 294
“Adore” (Prince ballad/song), 93
Adventures In Babysitting (Chris Columbus film), 185
Adventures of Dean Dean (Hank Shocklee musical group), 259
“African Scaredy Katz In A One Exit Maze” (Sister Souljah song), 302
After Dark My Sweet (film starring Jason Patric), 161
After The Rehearsal (film), 27
Afterschool Special (TV show), 350
Against All Odds (Taylor Hackford film), 15
Charlie Ahearn (filmmaker/director, photographer, writer), 16
Danny Aiello, (actor in film Do The Right Thing) 123, 427
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Broadway musical), 45
“Ain’t No Other” (MC Lyte album), 367
“Ain’t No Sunshine” (song in movie Crooklyn), 428
“Ain’t Nuthin’ But A G Thang” (Dr. Dre/Snoop Doggy Dogg song off The Chronic), 354
Ain’t Nuthin’ But A G Thang (Dr. Dre video), 352-353
“Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg” (TLC song), 367
Tami Akbar, (roommate/participant on MTV’s The Real World), 395-400
Aladdin (Disney animated film), 329-331, 337
Edward Albee, (playwright), 245-246, 390
Horatio Ali, 207, 263
Shahrazad Ali, (author), 162, 234, 303
Mary Alice, (actress), 170, 171, 183, 372, 373
All About Eve (film), 14
All In The Family (TV program), 172
Anthony Allen, see Son Of Bazerk (rapper, rap group)
Harry Allen (journalist), 351
Karen Allen (actress), 122
Woody Allen (filmmaker/director), 177, 321
Annie Hall, 59, 61
Broadway Danny Rose, 60
Hannah And Her Sisters, 59, 60, 63
Interiors, 60
Manhattan, 3, 60, 61
The Purple Rose Of Cairo, 24, 60, 378-380, 383
Radio Days, 58-64, 124
Stardust Memories, 60
Take The Money And Run, 58, 61, 62, 64
Zelig, 60, 189, 281, 379, 434
Pedro Almovodar (filmmaker/director), xvi, 98-99
Aloha Bobby and Rose (Floyd Mutrux film), 35
Herb Albert, (founder of A&M Records) 195
“Alphabet St.” (Prince song), 91, 271
Alright (Janet Jackson music video), 195-196, 236
Hilton Als, (journalist) 295
Robert Altman (filmmaker/director)
Genres restructured by Robert Altman, 39
Wendell B. Harris and Robert Altman, 282
Spike. Lee and Robert Altman, 124
The Long Goodbye (movie), 440
Nashville see Nashville (film)
Originality of Robert Altman, 21
The Player (film), 441
Postmodernism and Robert Altman, 176
Racial themes and Robert Altman, 8
Short Cuts (film), 388-391
That Cold Day In The Park (film), 389
3 Women (film), 389
A Wedding (film), 388
Always (Steven Spielberg film), 195, 405
“Am I Right?” (Erasure song), 335
Amacord (Federico Fellini film), 60
Amazing Grace (Stan Lathan film starring Moms Mobley), 23
The Amen Corner (play), 115, 302
“America The Beautiful” (song), 200
The American Cinema (features Andrew Sarris’ essay, ‘Toward A Theory Of Film History’), 404
An American Dream (film), 181
An American Family (TV Program), 24, 207
American Grafitti (George Lucas film), 30, 32, 42, 124
American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux film), 36, 199
American Museum Of The Moving Image, 280, 282
American Place Theatre (New York City), 48
American Playhouse (TV Program) 24, 207
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (Debut Ice Cube Solo Album), 155-159, 412
“Amos ‘n’ Andy” (TV Program), 106
Adisa Anderson, (Actor), 268
Laurie Anderson, 365
Robert Anderson, 297
Andrae Crouch Singers (gospel choir), 128
Julie Andrews (actress), 362
Angel (film), 41
Maya Angelou (poet), 14
Anna Lucasta (film), 29
“Anna Stesia” (Prince song), 91-92
Jean-Jacques Annaud (filmmaker/director), 331
Annie Hall (film), 59-61
Another Country (80’s film), 298
“Another Day In Paradise” (Phil Collins song), 210
Antonioni, Michaelangelo (filmmaker/director), 383
“Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home” (song Barbra Streisand cover), 356
Apache (rapper), 368
Apocalypse 91 (Public Enemy Album), 311
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola film), 18, 33
Apollo Theater (New York City, Harlem), 174
Apparatus Productions (organization), 295, 296
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz (film), 229
Arabian Nights (book), 329, 330
Anne Archer (Actress), 389
“Are You Wit Me?” (Son Of Bazerk song), 247-248, 249, 252, 345
Arista Records, 68, 70
Armed Forces (Elvis Costello recording), 158
“Around The Way Girl” (LL Cool J song), 167
Around The World In A Day (Prince Album), 91
Alexis Arquette (actor), 152
Arrested Development (rap group), 271-273, 328
Artforum (periodical), 420
Arthur (film), 3
“As If We Never Said Goodbye” (Andrew Lloyd Webber song), 358
As The World Turns (TV Program), 396
“As Yet Untitled” (Terence Trent D’Arby song), 65
Hal Ashby (director/filmmaker), 5, 327
“Asian Rut” (Morrissey Song), 221-223
Fred Astaire (Dancer, Actor), 74
“Asylums In Jerusalem” (Scritti Politti song), 286, 288
“At Sundown” (Doris Day song), 337
Richard Attenborough (director/filmmaker), 327
Margaret Atwood (Canadian novelist), 394
Au Pairs (musical group), 90, 209
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X, 312, 321
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman film), 27
Average White Band (musical group), 87
Margaret Avery (actress), 46
John Avildsen, 60
Dan Aykroyd (actor, comic), 2
Ethel Ayler (actress), 171
B
Heather B. (rapper, MTV Real World roommate/participant), 398
Tarrie B. (rapper), 262
Baby Boom (film), 232
Back To Broadway (recording), 357
Back To My Roots (RuPaul music video), xv, 289-290
Back To The Future (film), 434
Back To The Future III (film), 238
Backdraft (film), 227
Bad (Michael Jackson music video), 74, 75, 76-78
Black And White (Michael Jackson song) and, 239
Hoodlum symbols in, 241
Literary inspiration of, 131
“Bad” (Michael Jackson song), 74
Bad Boys (film starring Sean Penn), 3
Bad Girl (Madonna music video), 361
Bad Girls (Donna Summer recording), 56
“Badlands” (Bruce Springsteen song), 283
Vernel Bagneris, 101
Fay Bainter, 6
James Baldwin (author, novelist), 23-29, 57, 255, 302
Michael Ballhaus (cinematographer), 53
Band Apart (Quentin Tarantino’s production company), 440
Band Of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard film), 440
Antonio Banderas (actor), 98
“Bang, Bang, Bang” (Tracy Chapman song), 358
Amiri Baraka (poet), 327, 422
Barbara-O (actress), 268
Randy Barbato, 289
Brigette Bardot (actress), 196
“Barefoot in Beverly Hills” (Grace Jones song), 57
Ellen Barkin (actress), 142
Mary Neema Barnette (director/filmmaker), 27, 278
Maria Barranco (actress), 98
Lynda Barry (playwright of The Good Times Are Killing Me), 245
Marion Barry (former Washington D.C. mayor), 226
Roukietou Barry (African actor), 140
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick film), 349
Barton Fink (Coen Brothers film), 440
Basement Boys (musical group—House music), 209
Basic Instinct (film starring Sharon Stone), 375, 383
Angela Bassett (actress), 319
Batman (Tim Burton film), 126, 254
Battle, Kathleen (opera singer), 363
The Battle Of Algiers (film), 408
Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk (Son Of Bazerk album), 217, 247-252
Beach Boys (musical group), 166
Beastie Boys (musical group-rap)
De La Soul (rap group) and Beastie Boys, 138
Living Colour (rock group) and Beastie Boys, 87
Marky Mark (rapper) and Beastie Boys, 257
Rap genre and Beastie Boys, 105
Rick Rubin (music producer, record executive) and Beastie Boys, 73
White rappers and Beastie Boys, 259
Beat It (Michael Jackson music video), 78
“Beat It” song, 75, 241, 242
Beat poets, 258
Beat Street (breakdancing film), 13, 16, 23
Beatles (musical group)
The Black Album (Prince album) and Beatles, 92
Whitney Houston and Beatles, 69
Michael Jackson and Beatles, 75
Rolling Stones and Beatles, 217
RUN-DMC and Beatles, 71
Youth culture and Beatles, 31
Warren Beatty (actor), 195, 264, 265-266
Beau Geste (film), 119
Beauty And The Beast (Disney animated film), 188, 329
Bebe’s Kids (comedian Robin Harris recording), 172-173
“Bebe’s Kids At Disneyland” (Bebe’s Kids album track), 173-174
Samuel Beckett, 125, 434
Begotten (film), 254
Being There (film), 434
Andy Bell (singer in Erasure), 333, 334, 335
Martin Bell (documentary director of Streetwise), 31, 41-42
Roseann P Bell (Black scholar)., 360
Vanessa Bell-Armstrong (gospel singer), 129
Pete Bellotte (producer), 246
Saul Bellow, 255
Jean-Paul Belmondo (actor), 267, 338
Annette Bening (actress), 267
Paul Benjamin (actor), 123-124
Playthell Benjamin (journalist), 351, 419
William Bennett, (innocent Boston Black man arrested and charged with killing Charles Stuart’s pregnant wife) 260
Jerome Benton (sidekick, dancer, singer, musician Morris Day And The Time), 11, 53
Robert Benton (director/filmmaker), 2-3, 4, 5, 15, 441
Bruce Beresford (filmmaker/director), 146, 147
Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker/director)
Woody Allen (filmmaker/director) and Ingmar Bergman, 60, 61
Death Of A Dunbar Girl (movie) and Ingmar Bergman, 27
Ernest Dickerson (cinematographer) and Ingmar Bergman, 201
Female psyche and Ingmar Bergman, 394
Home Alone (movie) and Ingmar Bergman, 185
James Bernard (journalist), 275, 429-432
Sandra Bernhard (comedian, actress), 318
Gian Bernini, 296, 297
Chuck Berry (rock and roll singer-musician), 87, 88, 166
Halle Berry (actress), 229, 231
Bernardo Bertolucci (filmmaker/director), 249
Best Defense (film starring Eddie Murphy), 13, 19, 21
The Best Of Everything (film), 181
BET (Black Entertainment Television), 69
Beth A., (MTV Real World roommate/participant), 400
Beth S., (MTV Real World roommate/participant), 397
Betrayed (film), 214
Beulah (TV program), 372
Beverly Hills Cop (Eddie Murphy film), 25, 31, 184
Beverly Hills 90210 (TV Program), 396
Beyer, Troy (actress), 148, 149, 150, 199
Bido (music producer for rapper Willie D), 311
Big Chill (film), 199, 200
Big Daddy Kane (rap performer), 162, 261
“Big Ole Butt” (LL Cool J song), 165, 166
Billboard (music industry periodical), 230, 412
“Billie Jean” (Michael Jackson song), 75, 241
Bird (Clint Eastwood film starring Forest Whitaker), 36, 37, 162
The Birth Of A Nation (D. W. Griffith film), 1, 4
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg film) and, 46
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg film) and, 120
The Last Of The Mohicans (Michael Mann film) and, 332, 377
“Bitties in the BK Lounge” (De La Soul song), 218-219
Black Noel (director of film Mischief), 33
The Black Album, (Prince Album), 90, 92-93, 250
Black Box (musical group), 257
Black Caesar (Larry Cohen film), 441
Black Cat (Janet Jackson music video), 196
Black Erotica (book), 360, 362
Black Journal (TV Program), 148
Black Joy (film), 256
Black Like Me (film), 226
Black Muslims (sect), 322, 415
“Black New Wave” (film series), 282
Black or White (Michael Jackson music video), xv, 236-243
“Black or White” (Michael Jackson song), 236, 243
Black Panthers (party), 103, 157, 319
“Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” (Public Enemy song), 103, 104
“Black To My Roots” (RuPaul song), 289
The Blacks (play), 14, 15
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott film), 382
Bless Their Little Hearts (film directed by Billy Woodberry), xiv-xv, 20-22, 26, 169, 269
William Blinn (screenwriter of Prince movie Purple Rain), 12
The Blood Of Jesus (film directed by Spencer Williams), 106, 107, 108
Blood Simple (Coen Brothers film), 25
Bloom Allan, 180
Blow-Out (Brian DePalma film), 4, 176, 181
Blow-Up (Antonioni film) and, 383
Bonfire Of The Vanities and, 183
Casualties Of War and, 179
The Untouchables and, 178
Blow-Up (Antonioni film), 383
Blue Velvet (film directed by David Lynch), 300
The Blues Brothers (John Landis film), 12
Jeffrey Boam (screenwriter of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade), 120
“Bob George” (Prince song), 92-93, 250
Body Count (Ice T recording), 306, 307
Body Double (Brian DePalma film), 176, 177, 215
Body Heat (film), 265
Humphrey Bogart (actor), 9, 338
Peter Bogdonovich (filmmaker/director, critic, author), 34-35
Donald Bogle (author, critic), 282
Bojangles (backup singers to Terence Trent D’Arcy), 67
“The Bomb” (Ice Cube song), 158
Bomb Squad (music producers, musicians), 157, 311
James Bond, 111, 231
The Bonfire Of The Vanities (Brian DePalma film), 175, 176-177, 180-183
Bonnie And Clyde (film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway), 266, 300, 379
Boomerang (film starring Eddie Murphy), 292, 347, 383
“The Boomin’ System” (LL Cool J song), 165-166, 310
John Boorman (filmmaker/director), 207
“Bop Gun” (George Clinton song), 91
David Bordwell, 27
Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen album), xiv
Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen album), 32
Bound for Glory (film), 5
David Bowie (rock and roll singer/musician), 32, 242-243
Boy Movies
Anxiety depicted in Boy Movies, 39
Irony lacking in Boy Movies, 33
Sentimentality and Boy Movies, 42
Seventeen (film) and Boy Movies, 31, 38, 41
Streetwise (film) and Boy Movies, 31-32
The Boy with Green Hair (film), 32
Christopher Boyce, 37
Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton film)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris film) and Boyz N The Hood, 281
Dr. Dre (music producer) and Boyz N The Hood, 353
Hughes Brothers (filmmakers/directors) and Boyz N The Hood, 349, 350
Ice Cube (rapper, actor) and Boyz N The Hood, 413
Love Your Mama (film) and Boyz N The Hood, 344
Oscar nomination for Boyz N The Hood, 279-280
Matthew B. Brady, 376
“Brainteasers and Doubtbusters” (Sister Souljah song), 304
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola film), 331
Marlon Brando (actor), 162, 242, 297, 373
“Brassneck” (song by the musical group The Wedding Present), 369
Fred Braithwaite (Fab 5 Freddy), 274-277
Tawana Brawley, 97, 126, 224, 226
Stephen Bray, 131
The Breakfast Club (film directed by John Hughes), 30, 38, 41, 185, 396
Breakin’ (film), 2
Bertolt Brecht, 195
Walter Brennan (actor), 6
Robert Bresson (filmmaker/director), 107, 135, 341
Lee Breuer (writer/director of musical play The Gospel at Colonus), 100, 101, 102
Brides Of Funkenstein (musical group—George Clinton), 91
Beau Bridges (actor), 142
Jeff Bridges (actor), 6, 142, 144
Angela Briggens, 366
Bright Lights, Big City (film), 80
Brighton Beach Memoirs (film of Neil Simon play), 59, 61, 62
“Bring The Noise” (Public Enemy song), 82, 83, 104, 166, 310
Broadcast News (film starring Holly Hunter and William Hurt), 123, 380-382, 383
The Broadway Album, (Barbara Streisand album), 357
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen film), 60
Charles Bronson (actor), 83
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 100
Albert Brooks (actor), 396
James L. Brooks (movie producer/director), 381
Mel Brooks (actor, film director/producer/writer), 61
Richard Brooks (actor), 170
The Brother From Another Planet (film), 2, 12, 44
“Brothers Gonna Work It Out” (Public Enemy song), 167
Bobby Brown (singer), 360
Georgia Brown (critic), 121, 253
Gerard Brown (screenwriter Juice), 344
James Brown (singer/musician), 75, 90, 243, 425
Michael Henry Brown (screenwriter of Laurel Avenue), 371, 372, 373
Tony Brown (journalist/TV personality), 148-150, 421, 422
“Brown Skin Girl, Stay Home and Mind Baby” (song in Terence Davies film Distant Voices, Still Lives), 134
Roscoe Lee Browne (actor), 14
Frank Browning (author of book The Culture of Desire), 290
Susan Brownmiller, 28
“Buck Whylin” (Sister Souljah song), 301
“Buddy” (De La Soul song), 218
“Bugaboo” (Ed O.G and Da Bulldogs song), 260
Bugsy (Barry Levinson film starring Warren Beatty), 264-267
Larry Bullard (actor), 28
Da Bulldogs (musical group), 260
Mary-Ellis Bunim (TV producer), 396
Luis Bunuel (director of film Los Olvidados), 206
“Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos” (Nelson George book), 274, 275
Julie Burchill (critic), 25
Burn! (film starring Marlon Brando), 423
Burn, Baby, Burn (2 Black 2 Strong & The MMG’s music video), 260
Burn, Hollywood, Burn (Public Enemy music video starring Chuck D, Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane), 270
Carol Burnett (actress, comic), 98
Charles Burnett (filmmaker/director), 280, 282
Bless Their Little Hearts, xiv-xv, 20-22, 26, 169, 269
The Killer of Sheep see The Killer Of Sheep (film)
My Brother’s Wedding, 21, 26, 169
To Sleep With Anger, 169-171, 351, 373
Ken Burns (documentarian), 377
Richard Burton (actor), 330, 362
Tim Burton (filmmaker/director), 126
Stephen H. Burum (cinematographer), 33
George Bush, 261, 304
Bush administration
Tami Akbar and Bush administration, 397
The Fabulous Baker Boys (movie) and Bush administration, 145
Fab 5 Freddy and Bush administration, 274
Frustrations of Bush administration, 376
Home Alone (movie) and Bush administration, 184, 185
Media and Bush administration, 377
Propriety of Bush administration, 210
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen movie) and, 379
Young black professionals and Bush administration, 230
Bushwick Bill (rapper), 311, 354
Akosua Busia (actress in the Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple), 45, 46, 406
“Bust A Move” (Young M.C. song), 260
Busy Bee (rapper), 276
Paul Butler (actor), 170
Sam Butler Jr (singer-guitarist in musical play The Gospel At Colonus)., 100, 101
Calvin Butts (preacher), 355
C
C + C Music Factory (musical group), 190, 191, 192, 257
Cabaret (Liza Minnelli musical film), 15
Cabin In The Sky (Vincente Minnelli film), 14
The Cactus Album (Rap Group 3rd Bass Album), 259
Adolph Caesar (actor) 9, 10-11, 47
James Cagney (actor), 159, 226
Cagney and Lacey (TV Program), 23
William Calhoun (drummer), 87
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (silent film), 300
Cab Calloway (band leader and musician), 11, 195, 196
Godfrey Cambridge (comic and actor), 14
Joseph Campbell (author), 120
Jane Campion (filmmaker/director), 392-394, 418
“Can’t Truss It” (Public Enemy song), 423
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese film), 226, 351, 376
Al Capone (gangster), 178
Car Wash (film featuring cameo by comic Richard Pryor), 413
Irene Cara (actress, singer), 13
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard film), 380
Caravaggio (Derek Jarman film), 294
Hildur Carlsberg (actress in Carl Dryer film, The Person’s Widow), 141
Carmen Jones (film starring Dorothy Dandridge), 29
John Carpenter (filmmaker/director), 35
Karen Carpenter (singer), 135
Tia Carrere (actress), 382
Carrie (Brian DePalma film), 34, 35, 176, 181, 183
Diahann Carroll (actress), 53, 199
Thomas Carter (director/filmmaker), 409
Raymond Carver (author), 388, 390. 391
Casablanca (film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman), 267
Cassandra Half-Pint (rapper in rap group Son Of Bazerk), 249, 250
John Cassavetes (actor/filmmaker/director), 22, 25
Casualties Of War (Brian DePalma film), 175, 177, 178, 179-180, 183
Cats (Broadway musical), 337
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (George C Wolfe play by Bertolt Brecht), 195
“Caught Can We Get A Witness?” (Public Enemy song), 104-105
Alain Cavalier (filmmaker), xv
“Cave Bitch” (Ice Cube song), 416
CB4 (film starring Chris Rock), 343, 350
“Celebrate The Achievement” (Spike Lee event in Brooklyn honoring The Hughes Brothers film Menace II Society), 418
The Celluloid Closet (Vito Russo book), 296
Central Intelligent Agency, 321
Chameleon Street (Wendell B, Harris film), xv, 187-189, 253-256, 280-282, 328
Daughters Of The Dust (film) and Chameleon Street, 279, 281
Menace II Society (film) and Chameleon Street, 351
Sankofa (film) and Chameleon Street, 422
Straight Out Of Brooklyn (film) and Chameleon Street, 208
“Chan Goes To Shanghai” (Grace Jones song), 56
James Chaney, 109
“A Change Is Gonna Come” (Sam Cooke song), 423
Charles Chaplin (silent film star and filmmaker), 49
Tracy Chapman (singer/musician), 218, 358
Charisma Records (firm), 211
Cyd Charisse (actress), 196
Ernestine Charles (actress), 289
Ray Charles (singer, musician), 130
Cheap Trick (metal musical group), 88
“Check Yo Self” (Ice Cube song), 413
Cheers (TV Program), 237
Cher (performer), 35
Cherish (Madonna music video), 197
Neneh Cherry (singer), 144
Craig Chester (actor), 295
Chic (disco musical group), 56, 87, 88
Chico and the Man (TV Program), 172
Children (Terence Davies film), 338
“Children Play With Earth” (Arrested Development song), 273
“Children Will Listen” (Barbara Streisand song), 356, 357-358, 359
A Chinese Ghost Story (film), 119
Chocolat (Claire Denis film), 394
Choose Me (Alan Rudolph film), 143
Robert Christgau (critic), 351
Christianity, 19
Christine (film from Stephen King book), 35
The Chronic (Dr Dre album), 352, 353-355
Chuck D (rapper, Public Enemy)
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, 155
“Bring The Noise”, 83
“Can’t Truss It”, 422
Ice Cube and Chuck D, 157, 159, 412, 414
Ice-T and Chuck D, 307
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (album), 103, 104-105
Janet Jackson and Chuck D, 363
Mainstream criticism of Chuck D, 430, 432
Marky Mark and Chuck D, 261
N.W.A. and Chuck D, 156
Radio and Chuck D, 82
Sister Souljah and Chuck D, 301
Chuck D on white rock, 283
Willie D and Chuck D, 311
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 321
“Cindy C” (Prince song), 93
The Circus (Erasure album), 333
Souleymane Cisse (African filmmaker), 140
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles film), 253, 255
The City Sun (Brooklyn-based weekly newspaper), xvi, xvii, 256
The Civil War (TV film series), 377
“Clap Your Hands” (song), 167
Shirley Clarke (filmmaker/director), 25
Vince Clarke (composer for Erasure), 333-334, 335
Clash (musical group), 217
The Clash of Races (Haki Madhubuti), 282
Claudine (film starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones), 199
Jill Clayburgh, 45
“Clean Up Man” (Willie D song), 309
Cleopatra Jones (70s exploitation film starring Tamara Dobson), 227
Montgomery Clift (actor), 297
Bill Clinton (president)
Elvisana and Bill Clinton, 316
Sister Souljah and Bill Clinton, 285, 286, 301
Barbra Streisand and Bill Clinton, 356, 358
George Clinton (band leader, musician)
De La Soul and George Clinton, 136
Dr. Dre and George Clinton, 353
Funkadelic and George Clinton, 137
Prince and George Clinton, 90, 91
Repo Man and George Clinton, 17, 18
Clinton Administration, 435
Robert Cliviles (music producer), 192, 193
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg film), 176
The Color Purple and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 44
Mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 238
Optimism in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 401
Repo Man and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 18
Schindler’s List and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 405, 407
“Close the Door” (Teddy Pendergrass song), 246
Club Mix recordings, 211, 212
Coca-Cola, 69
Jean Cocteau (filmmaker/director), 188, 282
Joel Coen (filmmaker/director), 25
Coen Brothers (filmmaking directing duo), 440
“Cold Lampin” (Flava Flav song), 219
David Cole (music producer), 192, 193
Nat “King” Cole (singer), 339, 340
Natalie Cole (singer), 66
Olivia Cole (actress), 29
Ornette Coleman (jazz musician), 89
Phil Collins (singer, musician), 210
Color (Warrington Hudlin film), 27, 29
“Color Blind” (Ice Cube song), 287
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg film), 43-47, 118, 119, 176, 256
Black cinema and The Color Purple, 24
Black or White and The Color Purple, 237
Daughters Of The Dust and The Color Purple, 270
The Forbidden City and The Color Purple, 116
Hair-combing scene in The Color Purple, 290
Hollywood Shuffle and The Color Purple, 63
Spike Lee and The Color Purple, 326
Letters sequence in The Color Purple, 406
Malcolm X and The Color Purple, 320
Optimism of The Color Purple, 401
Orphans Of The Storm and The Color Purple, 408
The Piano and The Color Purple, 393
Pop didactics of The Color Purple, 407
Racial politics of The Color Purple, xvi, 254
Ricochet and The Color Purple, 226
Sankofa and The Color Purple, 422
Straight Out Of Brooklyn and The Color Purple, 408
Success of The Color Purple, xv, 405
The Untouchables and The Color Purple, 178
The Color Purple (Alice Walker book), 24, 43
The Colored Museum (play), 63
John Coltrane (jazz musician), 162
Columbia Pictures, Inc., 346
Columbia University, 274
Chris Columbus (filmmaker/director), 185, 186
Christopher Columbus, 37, 331
Come Back To Me (Janet Jackson music video), 196
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman film), 389
“Come, Lord Jesus” (Clinton Utterbach And The Praisers gospel song), 129
Coming To America (Eddie Murphy film), xvi, 94-97, 150
Commitments (fictitious musical group from Alan Parker movie), 288
Communism, 19
The Company Of Wolves (Neil Jordan film), 35, 36
Compulsion (Richard Fleischer film), 294, 296, 297, 298, 299-300
Conan The Destroyer (film), 55
Marc Connelly (filmmaker/director), 46
Sean Connery (actor), 121, 178
Conrack (Martin Ritt film starring Jon Voight), 6, 7-8
“Constantly” (Bert Williams song), 50, 51
The Content Of Our Character (Shelby Steele book), 310
Control (Janet Jackson album), 56, 194
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola film), 383
Pam Cook (writer for The British Film Institute), 382
Sam Cooke (singer), 66, 67, 100, 101, 249
Cool Breeze (70s exploitation film), 227
LL Cool J, (rapper) see L.L. Cool J
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke film), 25
Cooley High (Michael Schultz film), 34
Martha Coolidge (filmmaker/director of Valley Girl), 42
Gerry Cooney (singer), 70
James Fenimore Cooper, 331
“Cop Killer” (Ice T song), 306, 307
“Copacabana” (song), 64
Stewart Copeland (music scorer to movie Fresh), 438
Francis Ford Coppola (filmmaker/director)
Apocalypse Now, 18, 33
Boy Movies of Francis Ford Coppola, 31, 32, 33
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 331
The Conversation, 383
The Cotton Club, 2, 14, 143
The Godfather see The Godfather (film)
The Outsiders, 31, 33, 34, 176
Postmodernism and Francis Ford Coppola, 176
Rumble Fish see Rumble Fish (film)
Richard Corliss (critic), 254
Bill Cosby (actor, comic), 45, 117, 173, 226
The Cosby Show (TV Program), 117
Constantin Costa-Gavras (filmmaker/director), 346
Elvis Costello (singer/musician), 158, 242
Kevin Costner (actor), 178
The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola film) 2, 14, 143
Cotton Comes To Harlem (70s exploitation film), 14, 26
Michael Coulter (cinematographer of The Long Day Closes), 339
Countdown at Kusini (Ossie Davis film), 26
“A Couple Of Swells” (song), 342
Aniff Cousins (guest artist on Kristy MacColl song “Walking Down Madison”) 211
Noel Coward, 340
Alex Cox (filmmaker/director), xvi
Repo Man see Repo Man (Film)
Straight To Hell, 72, 443
Sarah Cracknell (singer), 363
Jeanne Crain, 6
The Cranes Are Flying (classic Soviet Union film), 387
Michael Crawford, 358
Crazy C (producer), 311
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen film), 152, 176-177
The Crimson Kimono (film), 214
Judith Crist, 417
Michael Cristofer, 183
Frankie Crocker (radio DJ), 220
Crooklyn (Spike Lee film), 425-428
Cross of Coronado, 120
Scatman Crothers (actor), 7
Andrae Crouch (gospel singer), 128
Sandra Crouch (gospel singer), 130
Stanley Crouch (columnist), 418, 419, 441
Lindsay Crouse (actress), 4
Tom Cruise (actor), 6, 39, 150
Crusades, 120
Crusoe, (Caleb Deschanel film), 121
Cry (Godley & Crème 1985 music video), 239
Cuba (film with Lonette McKee), 14
Cujo (film from Stephen King book), 214
George Cukor (filmmaker/director), 99
Macaulay Culkin (actor), 184, 237, 239
“Cult of Personality” (Living Colour song), 88
The Culture of Desire (Browning), 290
Vondie Curtis-Hall (actor), 48, 49, 50
Cypress Hill (rap group), 257, 349
Stefan Czapsky, (cinematographer of film Last Exit To Brooklyn) 151
D
D, Chuck see Chuck D (rapper, group Public Enemy)
Heavy D (rapper), 196
Nikki D (rapper), 234, 345
Willie D (rapper, from rap group Geto Boys) 309-315, 323
D.C. Cab (Joel Schumacher film), 31
“Daddy Kalled Me A Niga ‘Cause I Likeded to Rhyme” (song by rap group Young Black Teenagers), 261
“Daddy’s Little Girl” (Nikki D song), 345
Willem Dafoe (actor), 109
Daily News (NY newspaper), 255
Alfonse D’Amato (NY politician), 226
“Dance On” (Prince song), 90, 91
The Dancer and the Railroad (play written by David Henry Hwang), 102
Dances with Wolves (film starring Kevin Costner), 332
Dancin’ (Chris Isaak music video), 130
“Dancing In The Street” (Motown, Martha And The Vandellas song), 90, 288
“Dancing Machine” (Jackson Five song), 218-219
Dangerous (Michael Jackson album), 241
Dangerous Liaisons (film with actress Michelle Pfeiffer), 142
Jeff Daniels (actor in The Purple Rose Of Cairo), 379
Blythe Danner (actress), 61-62
Herbert Danska (director of 1967 film Sweet Love, Bitter), 25
Terence Trent D’Arby (singer, musician), 65-67
Manohla Dargis (critic), 351
Bobby Darin (actor in 1962 film Pressure Point), 215
Dark at the Top of the Stairs (film), 115
August Darnell (singer, musician Kid Creole’s Coconuts), 144
Clarence Darrow, 293
Charles Darwin, 215, 240
Julie Dash (filmmaker/director), 268-270, 278-279
Black cinema and Julie Dash, 256
Haile Gerima and Julie Dash, 421, 422
Wendell B. Harris and Julie Dash, 281
Daughters Of The Dust (Julie Dash film), 268-270, 278-279
Arthur Jafa and Daughters Of The Dust, 420
The Piano and Daughters Of The Dust, 393
Sankofa and Daughters Of The Dust, 421, 424
Syntax of Daughters Of The Dust, 256
Allen Daviau (cinematographer), 44, 402
Tommy Davidson (actor, comic), 229, 230, 231
Terence Davies (filmmaker/director), xvi, 133-135, 336-337, 427, 428
Bette Davis (actress), 10, 23, 24
Clive Davis (record executive), 70
Ossie Davis (actor), 26, 63, 112, 123, 204
Peter Davis (PBS series “Middletown”), 38
Sammy Davis Jr (singer, musician)., 112
Thulani Davis (playwright), 195
Zelma Davis (singer), 191
Cora Lee Day (actress), 268
Doris Day (singer), 337
Morris Day (singer, musician of group The Time), 11
The Day After (film), 18
Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), 332
Moshe Dayan, 401
Jan De Bont (cinematographer, filmmaker/director), 375
De La Soul (rap group), xvi, 136-138, 217-220
Arrested Development (rap group) and De La Soul, 273
Audience of De La Soul, 430
Fontana and De La Soul, 261
Sister Souljah and De La Soul, 304
De La Soul Is Dead (De La Soul album), 217, 218-220
Robert De Niro (actor), 177, 178, 376
Dead End (1937 film), 124
“Dead On It” (Prince song), 92
James Dean (actor), 30, 297
Death and Transfiguration (Terence Davies film), 338
Death Certificate (Ice Cube album), 286-287
Death Of A Dunbar Girl (1977 film by Henry Miller), 27
“Death Penalty” (track in Robin Harris album Bebe’s Kids), 174
The Decline Of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris film), 41
Miriam DeCosta-Willis (Black scholar), 360
Kool Moe Dee (rapper), 164, 165
Ruby Dee (actress), 112, 123, 204
Deee-Lite (musical group), 250
Deep In Vogue (Malcolm McLaren video), 154
Deeper and Deeper (Madonna music video), 361
“Deeper and Deeper” (Madonna song) 361, 365
Def American Records (record label), 311
Def By Temptation (James Bond III film), 231
Def Jam Records (record label), 71, 276
The Defiant Ones (film starring Sidney Poitier), 225
Daniel Defoe, 121
Fred Dekker (screenwriter of film Ricochet starring Denzel Washington), 226
Deliberate Speed (William T. Lhamon book on World War II culture), 233-234
Agnes DeMille, 333
Cecil B. DeMille (filmmaker/director), 149, 200
Jonathan Demme (filmmaker/director), 299
Democratic National Convention, 305, 309, 434, 435
Democratic Party, 316
Benj DeMott (critic), 204
Joel DeMott (documentary director of Seventeen), 31, 38, 39, 40
Jacques Demy (filmmaker/director), 182
David Demby (film critic), 254, 401, 409
Claire Denis (filmmaker/director), 394
William Dennis (rapper “Willie D”), 309-315, 323
Brian DePalma (filmmaker/director), 381
Pedro Almovador and Brian DePalma, 99
Blow-Out see Blow Out (film)
The Fury, 34, 176, 181, 441
Gangster films of Brian DePalma, 266
Hi Mom!, 15, 176, 177-178, 181, 183
Alfred Hitchcock and Brian DePalma, 156
Spike Lee and Brian DePalma, 175, 326
Menace II Society and Brian DePalma, 350
Political films of Brian DePalma, 174-183
Prestige possession concept and Brian DePalma, 144
Raising Cain, 378, 379
Scarface see Scarface (film: 1983)
Short Cuts and Brian DePalma, 391
On White Dog (Sam Fuller film), 215
Youth films of Brian DePalma, 34
Rossy DePalma (actress in film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown), 98
Gerard Depardieu (actor), 331
Depression Era, 2, 115
Clevant Derricks (actor), 7
Caleb Deschanel (cinematographer, filmmaker/director), 121
Vittorio DeSica (filmmaker/director), 5, 6, 206, 436, 437
Ecare Desire’ (filmmaker), 140
Dinesh DeSouza, 353, 435
Steven DeSouza (screenwriter of film Ricochet starring Denzel Washington), 226
“Desperate People” (song by band Living Colour), 88
Desperately Seeking Susan (film starring Madonna), 25
“The Devil Finds Work” (James Baldwin essay), 23
Devo (musical group), 89
Brandon DeWilde (actor), 297
Dexys Midnight Runner (white Irish soul musical group), 288
Dick Tracy (film starring Warren Beatty), 195, 266
Charles Dickens (novelist), 43, 46, 180
Ernest Dickerson (cinematographer, filmmaker/director), 126, 162-163, 201, 322, 344
“Did You Do It?” (Madonna song), 361
Bo Diddley (blues singer, musician), 34
“Didn’t We Almost Have It All?” (Whitney Houston song), 68
Die Hard (film starring Bruce Willis), 140, 225, 375
“Diet” (Au Pairs song), 209
Marlene Dietrich (actress), 11, 56
A Different Image (film by Alile Sharon Larkin), 27-28
Digable Planets (rap group), 290
Digital Underground (rap group), 331
Bradford Dillman, 298
Matt Dillon (actor), 39
“Dim All The Lights” (Donna Summer song), 245, 246
Dionysus in ’69 (Brian De Palma film), 176
“Dirty Dawg” (New Kids On The Block song), 258
“Dirty Diana” (Michael Jackson song), 75, 241
“Dirty Mack” (Ice Cube song), 411-412
Walt Disney, 44, 96, 254, 329
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies film), 133-135, 336-337, 339, 340, 341
Diva (film), 4
Ivan Dixon (actor, filmmaker/director), 112
Willie Dixon (blues singer), 168
“Do It Properly” (song by group 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black-man and A Dominican – - produced by David Cole and Robert Clivilles), 192
Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee film), xv, 123-127, 160, 256
Black or White and Do The Right Thing, 241
Bonfire Of The Vanities and Do The Right Thing, 176
Casualties of War and Do The Right Thing, 175, 180
Chameleon Street and Do The Right Thing, 254
Critical condemnation of Do The Right Thing, 377
Crooklyn and Do The Right Thing, 425, 427
Ernest Dickerson and Do The Right Thing, 201
Driving Miss Daisy and Do The Right Thing, 146
Robin Harris in Do The Right Thing, 174
Jungle Fever and Do The Right Thing, 204
Last Exit To Brooklyn and Do The Right Thing, 152
Lighting in Do The Right Thing, 162-163
Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing, 319, 321
Menace II Society and Do The Right Thing, 351
Sex, lies and videotape and Do The Right Thing, 383
Straight Out Of Brooklyn and Do The Right Thing, 205
Time on Do The Right Thing, 326
White Dog and Do The Right Thing, 213
Peter Dobson (actor in Last Exit To Brooklyn), 152
D.O.C. (rapper), 353
The Doctor (film starring William Hurt), 266
Doctor Dre see Dr Dre (rapper, music producer)
E. L. Doctorow, 121
“Doing Dumb Shit” (Ice Cube song), 287
Dolemite (film starring Comedian Rudy May Moore), 72, 139
Dolomite (album by Rudy May Moore), 248
Dominic (Irish immigrant in MTV’s The Real World), 396
Phil Donahue (TV Talk Show Host), 148, 380
Troy Donahue (actor), 31
Stanley Donen (filmmaker/director), 340
Richard Donner (filmmaker/director), 36
“Don’t Believe The Hype” (Public Enemy rap song), 105
“Don’t Tread On Me” (song by rock band Metallica), 284
Allison Doody (actress in Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade), 122
The Doors (Oliver Stone film), 200, 321
Robert DoQui (actor in Robert Altman movie Nashville), 4, 143
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 189, 281
Frederick Douglass, 327
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (film), 63
“Down for Whatever” (Ice Cube song?), 414
Robert Downey Jr. (actor), 348, 390
Downtown Science (musical group with producer Sam Sever), 259
Dr. Dre (rapper, music producer), 352-355
Dr. Dre on “bii-yaaches,” 399
Fresh (movie) and Dr. Dre, 437
Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, 412, 413, 414
Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola film), 331
“Drama!” (Erasure song), 335
William Drayton (“Flavor Flav”), 82, 83, 103-104, 432
A Dream Is What You Wake Up From (film directed by Larry Bullard and Carolyn W. Johnson), 28, 29
Dreamgirls (Broadway musical), 13, 45, 48
“Dreaming Of The Queen” (Pet Shop Boys song), 386
Dress You Up (Madonna music video), 131
Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma film), 7, 176, 177
Carl Theodor Dreyer (filmmaker/director), 107, 135, 141, 341
Drifters (R & B musical group), 200
“The Drive By” (Ice Cube song), 156, 158
Driving Miss Daisy (film starring Morgan Freeman), 45, 146-147
Bonfire Of The Vanities and Driving Miss Daisy, 182
The Long Day Closes and Driving Miss Daisy, 336
Simi Valley Aesthetics and Driving Miss Daisy, 377, 384
Drugstore Cowboy (film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight), 149
Reana, E. Drummond (actress in Straight Out Of Brooklyn), 207
Drums Along The Mohawk (film), 119
Stuart Dryburgh (cinematographer), 394
W. E. B. Du Bois, 48
Alexandra Duah (Ghanaian actress), 423
Duck You Sucker (Sergio Leone film), 441
Duel In The Sun (film), 99
Michael Dukakis (presidential candidate in the 1980s), 97
O. L. Duke (actor), 149, 150
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 115
Robbie Dunbar (of duo Sly and Robbie), 55
Dune (David Lynch film), 20
Duran, Duran (80s rock group), 226
Marguerite Duras (author of The Lover), 331
Ian Dury (musician), 17, 18
Charles Dutton (actor), 347, 371
Richard Dyer (author, critic), 297, 298
Bob Dylan (folk singer, musician), xv
E
Sheila E. (singer, drummer, percussionist, musician), 93
Eagles (musical group), 415
Earth Girls Are Easy (film directed by Julien Temple), 195
Easy E, (rapper, member of rap group N.W.A., record executive), 353
Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs (rap group), 260
Uli Edel, 151, 152
Edmond (play by David Mamet), 8
Richard Edson (actor in Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing), 123
Edward II (film directed by Derek Jarman), 294
David Edwards (comic, MTV Real World roomate/participant), 397, 398-399, 399, 400
Wilis Edwards (Beverly Hills NAACP Executive Director in 1984), 213
Atom Egoyan, 178
Eight Men Out (film directed by John Sayles), 182
Sergei Eisenstein (flimmaker/director), 378, 381
Ron Eldard (actor in play Servy-N-Bernice 4 Ever), 245
Ralph Ellison (novelist), 189, 281
Empire Of The Sun, (Steven Spielberg film), 118, 119, 185, 402, 407
The Empire Strikes Back (film directed by Irving Kershner and produced by George Lucas), 118
”Endangered Spicies” (Ice Cube song), 156
”Enemy” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 411
Enemy Mine (film), 44
”Enter Sandman” (song by band Metallica), 283
Entertainment Weekly (magazine), 417
EPMD (rap group), 276
Erasure (musical group), 333-335, 386
Erotica (Madonna album), 360, 361-362
Erotique Noir/Black Erotica (book), 360, 362
Escapade (Janet Jackson music video), 195, 196
Giancarlo Esposito (actor), 125, 437
Esquire (periodical), 200
Emilio Estevez (actor), 17, 18
E.T., (Steven Spielberg film), 44, 119
Black character in E.T., 4
Childhood denial and E.T., 36
Crooklyn (Spike Lee film) and E.T., 427
Malcolm X (Spike Lee film) and E.T., 326, 327, 410
Optimism of E.T., 401
Schindler’s List and E.T., 405, 407, 408
Henry Thomas (actor) in E.T., 45
”Eternal Sleep” (song interpreted by Willie Rogers in the play/musical The Gospel At Colonus), 101
Europa, Europa (film), 408
European immigrants, 4
Art Evans, 10
Walker Evans, 407
”Ever So Clear” (song by rapper Bushwick Bill), 311
Everybody’s All American (film directed by Taylor Hackford), 111
Everlast (singer, rapper), 263
”Every Picture Tells A Story” (song by Rod Stewart), 34
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” (song by rap group Naughty By Nature), 290, 291
”Evil Dick” (song by rapper, actor, Ice T), 306
Excalibur (film directed by John Boorman), 4
”Eye No” (Prince song), 91
Eyes On The Prize (flim, documentary on the civil rights movement), 111, 377
”F— Tha Police” (song by rap group N.W.A.), 157
”F— Wit Dre Day” (Dr. Dre song), 354
Fab 5 Freddy (MTV personality/host), 274-277
The Fabulous Baker Boys (film starring Michelle Pfeiffer), 142-145
Face to Face (film directed by Ingmar Bergman), 394
Frankie R. Faison (actor), 114, 124
Faith (album by singer George Michael), 90
Amina Fakir (actress in Wendell B. Harris film Chameleon Street), 188
Falco (rapper), 259
Falcon and the Snowman (film), 36, 37, 38
Renee Falconetti (actress), 338
Falling In Love (film starring Meryl Streep), 22
Fame (TV Program), 31
Family (TV Program), 215
Fanny and Alexander (film directed by Ingmar Bergman), 60, 185
J.J. Farley (singer), 100
Teresa Farley (actress in the Tony Brown movie The White Girl), 149
”Farmers Blvd.” (LL Cool J song), 165
Louis Farrakhan, 414
Mia Farrow (actress), 61, 379
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (filmmaker/director), 8, 15, 152, 182
Fast Forward (film starring Sidney Poitier), 25, 77
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (film), 2, 33, 42
Fatal Attraction (film directed by Adrian Lyne), 99
Father Of The Bride (film), 270
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 157
Fear Eats the Soul/Ali (film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 152
Fear Of A Black Planet (album by rap group Public Enemy), 203, 217, 311, 413
”Fear Of A Black Planet” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 239
Fear Of Music (album by group Talking Heads), 88
Federico Fellini (filmmaker/director), 60, 379
Fences (play by August Wilson), 85, 171, 373
Edna Ferber (novelist), 46
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (film starring Matthew Broderick), 185
Stepin Fetchit (actor, Lincoln Perry), 16, 313, 414
”Fever” (song sung by Peggy Lee and covered by Madonna), 361
Leslie Fiedler (wrote 1959 essay ”The Jew in The American Novel”), 60-61, 63, 332
Sally Field (actress), 2, 4
Henry Fielding (novelist), 180
Connie Field (co-director of documentary Freedom On My Mind), 433, 435
W.C.Fields (actor, comic), 174
Ralph Fiennes (actor), 407-408
”Fight for Your Right to Party” (song by rap group Beastie Boys), 105
”Fight The Power” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 123, 125, 250, 327
Film Comment (periodical), 216, 377
Film Forum (movie theater in New York), 20, 213, 253, 433
Film Society of Lirncoln Center, 253-254
Fingers (film by James Toback), 264
The Fireman’s Ball (film directed by Milos Forman), 94
First Amendment, 307
Fishbone (musical group), 88, 250
”Fishin’ 4 Religion” (song by rap group Arrested Development), 272, 273
Ella Fitzgerald (singer), 133, 134
F. Scott Fitzgerald (novelist), 295
Five Blind Boys of Alabama (gospel musical group), 100, 102
The Five Heartbeats (film directed by Robert Townsend), 198-200, 256
The Flamingo Kid (film starring Matt Dillon), 39
Flashdance (film directed by Adrian Lyne), 184, 377
Flavor Flav (rapper, sidekick, foil, in rap group Public Enemy), 82, 83, 103-104, 432
Richard Fleischer, 294, 300
Fly Boy in the Buttermilk (Book by Greg Tate), 398,
FOB (play by David Henry Hwang), 102
Jane Fonda (actress), 194
Wayne Fontana (singer in group Wayne Fontana and The Mind Benders), 261
Fool For Love (film directed by Robert Altman), 176
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (play), 63
The Forbidden City (play), 114-117, 427
Harrison Ford (actor), 120
John Ford (filmmaker/director), 43, 118, 119, 120, 406
Milos Forman (filmmaker/dircetor), 94
Forrest Gump (film directed by Robert Zemickis, stars Tom Hanks), 433, 434, 435
48 HRS (film directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy), 2, 187, 225
Frances Foster (actress in Spike Lee film Crooklyn), 427
Gloria Foster (actress in play The Forbidden City), 114, 115
Jodie Foster (actress), 299
Clarence Fountain (singer), 100, 101
Four Days In July (film directed by Mike Leigh), 413
The Four Feathers (film), 119
400 Blows (film by Traufaut), 341
”409” (song by rapper Ice T), 80
Four Tops (musical group), 200
1492 (film directed by Ridley Scott), 331, 332
Michael J. Fox (actor), 179, 180
Fox and His Friends (film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 152
Redd Foxx (comic, actor), 93, 94, 173
William Fraker (cinematographer), 402
”Frankenstein” (song by punk musical grop The New York Dolls), 75
Aretha Franklin (singer/musician), 130, 302, 309, 356
Carl Franklin (filmmaker/director), 371-374
Frank’s Place (TV Program), 372
Fraternity Vacation (film), 32
Freedom on My Mind (documentary film), 433-435
Freedom Summer, 433-434, 435
Al Freeman Jr. (actor), 320
Morgan Freeman (actor)
Morgan Freeman in film Driving Miss Daisy, 146, 147, 182
Morgan Freeman in the play The Gospel At Colonus, 100, 101,
Thelma Houston and Morgan Freeman (Lean On Me Soundtrack), 128
French New Wave films, 176, 226, 336, 338, 440
French Occupation, xv
French Provincial (film), 249, 338
Fresh (film directed by Boaz Yakin), 436-438
Doug E. Fresh (rapper), 219
Fresh Fly Flavor (book by Fab 5 Freddy), 274, 275-276
Sigmund Freud, 115
From Here To Eternity (film starring Burt Lancastor), 373-374
Charles Fuller (playright, screenwriter), xiv, 9, 10, 11, 77
Sam Fuller (filmmaker/director), 213-216
Funkadelic (musical group), 136, 137
Funky Bunch (Marky Mark musical group), 257, 258
Funny Girl (film starring Barbara Streisand), 12, 68, 239
”Funny Vibe” (song by band Living Colour), 89
Anton Furst (production designer/art director), 126
The Fury (Brian DePalma film), 34, 176, 181, 441
The Future (album by R & B group GUY), 231
G
Bob Gale (screenwriter, Back To The Future), 36
Peter Gallagher, (actor), 389
Antoine Gallard (translator af Arabian Nights, French writer), 330
Carlos Gallardo (actor in El Mariachi), 346
Gamble and Huff (legendary music composers From Philly International Records), 248
”Game Of Love” (song), 218
”Games” (Donnie Wahlberg/New Kids On The Black song), 258
Gandhi (1984 film directed by Richard Attenborough), 404
Gang Of Four (musical group–”I Love A Man In A Uniform” song), 105, 164
”Gangsta Bitch” (song by rapper Apache), 368
”Gangsta, Gangsta” (song by rap group N.W.A.), 156-157
Ganja and Hess (flim written and directed by Bill Gunn), 114, 115, 116, 208
”A Gangsta’s Fairytale” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 157
Gap (firm), 194
Greta Garbo (actress), 101, 115
The Garden of the Finzi Continis (film), 409
Keith Gardener (writer), xiii, 380
Judy Garland, (actress), 75, 297
Green Gartside (singer, Scritti Politti), 286
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican civil rights leader), 86, 327
Romain Gary (novelist), 214, 216
Daryl Gates (LAPD Police Chief/Commissioner), 397
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (Black Scholar) 419, 420
Black mythology and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 171
Ice Cube and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 287
Leonard Jeffries (professor) and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 314
Spike Lee and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 203
”Niggaz with Latitude,”, (article in New Yorker magazine authored by Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr), 418
rappers and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 313
2 Live Crew and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 276
Willie D (rapper from rap group Geto Boys) and Henry Louis Gates Jr., 310, 315
Paul Gaugin (painter), 201
Marvin Gaye (singer from Motown Records), 81, 258, 415
Gloria Gaynor (Disco singer –song ”I Will Survive”), 66
David Gedge (singer from group The Wedding Present), 369-370
Geffen Records, 311
Jean Genet, (1961 play The Blacks) 14, 15
Gentleman’s Agreement (film), 146, 266
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (film), 99
Nelson George (journalist, novelist, movie producer), 229-232, 274-275, 350
Chris Geralmo, (screenwriter – Mississippi Burning), 109
Gerardo (Hispanic rapper), 259, 261
Richard Gere (actor), 8
Haile Gerima (filmmaker/director, teacher), 421-424
Geronimo (film directed by Walter Hill), 409
George Gershwin (music composer), 61, 102, 362
”Get Back” (song), 129
Get To Know Your Rabbit (film directed by Brian DePalma), 176
Geto Boys (rap group), 252, 271, 309, 311, 354
”Gett Off My Back” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 432
”Ghetto Bastard” (song by rap group Naughty By Nature), 233
”Ghetto Bird” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 413
Ghost (film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore), 186, 336
Ghostbusters (film starring comic actor Bill Murray), 19
Pam Gibson (screenwriter of film Strictly Business) 230
Melissa Gilbert (actress in film Sylvester), 39
Gilda (film), 144, 145
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (actor in film Straight Out Of Brooklyn), 206
”Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (song by Cyndi Lauper), 32
Dorothy and Lillian Gish, (actresses in film Orphans In The Storm, sisters ) 46
”Give a Man a Fish” (song by rap group Arrested Development), 272
Glamorous Glue (Morrissey music video), 318
”Glamour Boys” (song by rock band Living Colour), 88
The Glass Menagerie (film), 115
”Gloria” (song by band Van Morrison), 32
Glory (film starring Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick), 256
Corey Glover (lead vocalist of band Living Colour), 87
Danny Glover (actor)
Danny Glover in The Color Purple, 45, 47
Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, 225
Danny Golver in Places In The Heart, 2, 4
Danny Glover in To Sleep With Anger, 169, 170
Go Down, Death (film directed by Spencer Williams), 106, 107
Go Down Moses (film), 208
Go Man, Go! (film about The Harlem Globetrotters – with Sidney Poitier), 29
Go Tell It On The Mountain (Stan Lathan film adaptation of James Baldwin novel) 23-29
Go West (Pet Shop Boys music video), 386
”Go West” (song by group Pet Shop Boys), 385-386
Jean-Luc Godard (filmmaker/director)
Black filmmakers and Jean-Luc Godard, 15
Black or White (Michael Jackson music video) and Jean-Luc Godard, 241
Les Carabiniers, 380
Firm name influenced by Jean-Luc Godard, 346
Sam Fuller and Jean-Luc Godard, 215
Jean-Luc Godard on gore, 351
Wendell B. Harris and Jean-Luc Godard, 188, 282
”I Can Do Anything” (rap song by De La Soul) and Jean-Luc Godard, 137-138
Willy Kurant (cinematographer) and Jean Luc Godard, 34
Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard, 126
The Long Day Closes and Jean-Luc Godard, 338
Made In U.S.A. and Jean-Luc Godard, 126
Masculine-Feminine and Jean Luc Godard, 34, 39
My Life To Live and Jean Luc Godard, 41, 138
Originality of Jean-Luc Godard, 21
Political-aesthetic balance of Jean-Luc Godard, 322
Sauve qui peut/La Vie and Jean-Luc Godard, 380, 382
Jean-Luc Godard on sixties youth, 69
Streetwise and Jean-Luc Godard, 41
Quentin Tarantino and Jean-Luc Godard, 440
Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Jean-Luc Godard, 188
Weekend and Jean-Luc Godard, 241
A Woman Is A Woman and Jean-Luc Godard, 126
The Godfather (film directed by Francis Ford Coppola), 153, 169, 264, 265
The Godfather Part II (film directed by Francis Ford Coppola), 176, 179
The Godfather Part III (film directed by Francis Ford Coppola), 177
Godley & Creme (musical group – 1985’s Cry), 239
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (real life person portrayed in flim Schindler’s List), 409
Bernie Goetz (NYC subway vigilante), 97
Goin Back To Cali (music video for rapper LL Cool J), 204
”Goin’ Back To Cali” (song by rapper LL Cool J), 166
Rube Goldberg, 38
Whoopi Goldberg (actress), xvi, 46, 145, 172, 406
The Golden Child (film starring Eddie Murphy), 59
The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (film), 329
Goldfinger (producer for Willie D – I’m Goin’ Out Lika Soldier), 311
Gone Are The Days (film starring Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, also known as Purlie), 112
Gone With The Wind (film), 1
Gonna Make You Sweat (music video for group C + C Music Factory—directed by Marcus Nispel), 190-193
The Good Times Are Killing Me (play by Lynda Barry), 245
”Good Vibrations” (song by rapper Marky Mark), 257, 258
Goodfellas (film directed by Martin Scorsese), 177, 181, 321
Andrew Goodman (murdered civil-rights/voter registration volunteer), 109
Good Times (TV Program), 172, 206, 350
The Goonies (film directed by Ricahrd Donner), 36, 37-38, 45
Charles Gordone, 14
Gordon’s War (flim directed by Ossie Davis), 26
Albert Gore (vice-president), 316
The Gospel at Colunus (theatrical musical), 100-102
Louis Gossett Jr. (actor), 8, 11, 14
”Gotta Have It” (song by rap group Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs), 260
Gilbert Gottfried (comic actor), 329
Grail (holy vessel), 120, 121
Farley Granger (actor), 297, 299
Brian Grant (director of the Whitney Houston music videos ”How Will I Know” and ”I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” ), 68, 69
Grease (film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John), 12
Great Depression, 2, 115
The Great Gatsby (film, novel), 110
Great Society Program, 65
”The Greatest Love Of All” (song by Whitney Houston), 69
Greatest Misses (album by rap Group Public Enemy), 432
William Greaves (filmmaker/director), 25, 256, 280
Greed, (film), 377
Al Green (singer), 66, 101, 104
Green Pastures (film), 29, 46, 101, 372
Howard Greenhalgh (dircetor of Pet Shop Boys music video ”Go West”), 386-387, 387
Greetings (film directed by Brian DePalma), 34, 176, 177
Andre Gregory, 183
Gremlins (film), 4, 45
Professor Griff (member of rap group Public Enemy), 431
D.W. Griffith (filmmaker/director), 254, 255, 381
The Birth Of A Nation see The Birth Of A Nation
The Color Purple and D.W. Griffith, 43, 46
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and D.W. Griffith, 120
Intolerance and D.W. Griffith, 153
Spike Lee and D.W. Griffith, 326
Michael Mann and D.W. Griffith, 332
Ruby L. Oliver (director of film Love Your Mama) and D.W. Griffith, 344
Originality of D.W. Griffith, 21
Orphans Of The Storm and D.W. Griffith,, 46, 408
Places In The Heart and D.W. Griffith, 4
Matty Rich and D.W. Griffith, 205
Steven Spielberg and D.W. Griffith, 408
Melanie Griffith (actress), 182
Michael Griffiths (black youth chased by angry white youth into street where he was hit by car and killed), 126
”Grind” (musical), 45
The Grind (TV Program), 396
Larry Gross (screenwriter of Walter Hill film Geronimo), 409
”Guard Your Grill” (song by rap group Naughty By Nature), 233
Peter Guber, (film executive, film producer), 175
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? (film starring Sidney Poitier), 3, 11, 202
Robert Guillaume (actor), 50
Gunga Din (film starring Cary Grant), 119
Bill Gunn (filmmaker/director, playright, screenwriter), 207, 256, 280, 282
The Forbidden City (play), 114-117, 427
The Landlord (film), 14, 15, 114, 327
GUY (musical group with Teddy Riley, Aaron Hall), 231
”Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)” (song by singer Crystal Waters), 209-212
H
Taylor Hackford (filmmaker/director), 8, 15
Gene Hackman (actor), 109, 110, 111, 113
Merle Haggard (country singer), 360
Stephen Hague (producer for musical group The Pet Shop Boys), 386
Alex Haley (author), 144, 320, 321
Anthony-Michael Hall (actor), 39
Arsenio Hall (comic, actor, Talk Show Host), 172
Chameleon Street and Arsenio Halll, 188
Arsenio Hall in Coming to America, 95
De La Soul and Arsenio Hall, 219
Dr. Dre and Arsenio Hall, 355
George and Arsenio Hall, 350
Ice Cube and Arsenio Hall, 159
RuPaul and Arsenio Hall, 290
Carol E. Hall (actress), 343
Hall & Oates (musical group), 136
Hallelujah! (film directed by King Vidor), 46, 130, 256
”Hallelujah” (song on Clinton and The Praisers album, Sing A New Song), 129
Fannie Lou Hamer (female civil rights activist and hero), 435
Pete Hamill (journalist), 226
Bernie Hamilton (actor in film One Potato, Two Potato), 112
Lisa Gay Hamilton (actress), 245
M.C. Hammer (rapper), 190, 230, 243
Kirk Hammett (guitarist – Metallca?), 284
Henry Hampton (filmmaker/director, documentarian), 111, 377
Tom Hanks (actor), 182, 183, 434
Daryl Hannah (actress), 142
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen film), 59, 60, 63
Lorraine Hansberry (playright), 12
The Happiest Days of Your Life (film), 338
Happy Days (TV Program), 39, 396
Hard Copy (TV Program), 402
A Hard Day’s Night (film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles), 33
Hard To Hold (film), 12
Kadeem Hardison (actor), 231
Nate Hardman (actor in Bless Their Little Hearts – directed by Billy Woodberry), 20, 22
Harlem Studio Museum, 28
LaTasha Harlins (black female shot by Korean storeowner), 313, 347, 382, 383
Ben Harney (actor), 48, 49, 50
Andre Harrell (record executive, member of rap grooup Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde), 231
Julie Harris (actress), 297
Julius Harris (actor in To Sleep With Anger – directed by Charles Burnett), 170
Leslie Harris (filmmaker/director of the film, Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.), 344-345, 346
Robin Harris (comic, actor), 124, 172-174, 207
Wendell B. Harris, Jr (filmmaker/director, actor)
Alternative press criticism of Wendell B. Harris, 255
Chameleon Street see Chameleon Street (film)
Individuality of Wendell B. Harris, 256
Mainstream indifference to Wendell B. Harris, 207, 280
William Douglas Street and Wendell B. Harris, 281
Zelda Harris (actress in Crooklyn, directd by Spike Lee), 425, 426
Harvard University, 311
PJ Harvey (singer), 362
Byron Haskin, 45
”The Hate That Hate Produced” (song by rapper Sister Souljah), 303
Yusef Hawkins (black man murdered by white mob in NYC), 204, 413
Howard Hawks (filmmaker/director), 118, 419
Curtis Hayes (Freedom Summer participant – civil rights), 433
Todd Haynes (filmmaker/director), 135, 296
Hays Code, 297
Rita Hayworth (actress), 144, 145
HBO (Home Box Office, cable channel), 371
Heartbreak Hotel (film directed by Chris Columbus), 185
”Heartless” (rap song by rap group Live Squad), 425
Stephen Heath, 298
Heather B, (rapper), 398
Heaven Tonight (1978 album by band Cheap Trick), 88
Heavenly Bodies (book by critic Richard Dyer), 297
Heavy D (rapper), 196
Dick Hebdige (social critic), 339
Amy Heckerling (filmmaker/director), 33, 42
Hell Up In Harlem (film directed by Larry Cohen), 441
Help (film starring The Beatles), 71
Jimi Hendrix (rock musician, singer), 87, 88, 284
Beth Henley (playwright), 394
Henry and June (film), 383
Henry Street Playhouse, 13-14
Katherine Hepburn (actress), 202
”He’s On The Beach” (song by Kirsty MacColl), 211
James Hetfield (singer in metal and Metallica), 284
”Hey, Big Spender” (song in musical Sweet Charity), 365
Hi Mom! (film directed by Brian DePalma), 15, 176, 177-178, 181, 183
”Hideaway” (song by musical gorup Erasure), 333
”Higher and Higher” (song), 130
Highlander (film directed by Russell Mulcahy), 226
Highway Patrolman (film directed by Alex Cox), 443
Anita Hill, 232, 234, 400
Virginia Hill (showgirl character in movie Bugsy directed by Barry Levinson), 265
Walter Hill (filmmaker/director), 36, 376, 409
Maurice Hines (dancer, actor, brother of Gregory Hines), 101
S.E. Hinton (novelist), 33
”Hip-Hop Mix” (version of Keith Sweat/LL Cool J song, ”Why Me, Baby?”), 292
Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker/dircetor), 156, 381,
Brian DePalma and Alfred Hitchcock, 178
Rope, 294, 296, 297, 299
Adolf Hitler, 121-122, 158, 403
Billie Holiday (jazz – blues singer), 65, 272, 302
Agnieszka Holland (filmmaker/director), 408
Endesha Ida Mae Holland (Mississippi native in documentary, Freedom On My Mind), 434-435
Patty Holley (California actress in Madonna ”Like A Prayer” music video), 130, 131
George Holiday (videographer who videotaped the Rodney King beating), 375, 382
Jennifer Holiday (singer), 66, 309
Loleatta Holloway (singer on rapper Marky Mark’s song, ”Good Vibrations”), 257, 258
”Hollywood Liar” (song by Grace Jones), 56
Hollywood Shuffle (film directed by Robert Townsend), 58, 59
Arthur Holm (author of textbook, Principles of Physical Geology, 341
Holy Grail, 120, 121
Home Alone (film), 184-186, 237
Home Invasion (album by rapper Ice T), 413
Home Movie (film directed by Brian DePalma), 176
Homicide (film), 227
”Honesty” (song by rap group Son Of Bazerk), 252
”Hoochie Coochie Man” (blues song), 168
Hook (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 405
bell hooks (author), 360
Hooks, Kevin (filmmaker/director), 229
Anthony Hopkins (actor), 299
Edward Hopper (painter), 152
Lena Horne (actress), 231
Katherine Houghton (actress in film Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?), 202
The House I Live In (short film starring Frank Sinatra), 239
”House Of Love” (song by Rupaul?), 290
House Party (film directed by Reginald Hudlin), 174, 207
House Party 2 (film), 230
Cissy Houston (gospel singer, mother of Whitney Houston), 70
Thelma Houston (singer who re-recorded ”lean On Me” with the Winans), 128
Whitney Houston (R&B and pop singer), 68-70
”How I Could Just Kill A Man” (song by rap group Cypress Hill), 349
”How Shall I See You Through My Tears?” (songby Jevetta Steele), 101
”How Soon Is Now?” (song by musical group, The Smiths), 386
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film), 229, 231
”How Will I Know?” (music video starring singer Whitney Houston), 68
Leslie Howard (actor in film Of Human Bondage), 23
Howard’s End (film directed by Merchant Ivory), 331
Irving Howe, 189
Reginald Hudlin (filmmaker/director), 174, 347, 383
Warrington Hudlin (filmmaker/film producer), 25, 27, 174, 347, 383
The Hudsucker Proxy (film directed by The Coen Brothers), 440
Albert Hughes (filmmaker/director), 347-351, 417, 418, 419-420
Allen Hughes (filmmaker/director), 347-351 417, 418, 419-420
John Hughes (ilmmaker/director), 30, 185, 186
Langston Hughes, 161, 248
Victor Hugo (author of Les Mesirables), 57
The Human Tornado (soundtrack album by Rudy Ray Moore), 139, 248
Holly Hunter (actress), 381, 392, 393, 394
Fannie Hurst, 46
Zora Neale Hurston (author), 276
William Hurt (actor), 266, 380
Husbands and Wives (film directed by Woody Allen), 321
John Huston (filmmaker/director), 121
David Henry Hwang (playwright), 102
I
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (film with actor Paul Muni), 5
”I Can Do Anything” (song by rap group De La Soul), 137
”I Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man” (rap song by rapper Flava Flav of rap group Public Enemy), 167
”I Cram to Understand U Sam” (song by rapper MC Lyte), 137
”I Don’t Know You” (song in Robert Altman movie Short Cuts), 390
”I Don’t Wanna Be Called Yo Niga” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 306-307
”I Have A Love” (song oung by Barbara Streisand and Johnny Mathis), 358
”I Knew That You Were Cheatin’ ” (song by singer Keith Sweat), 292
”I Love a Man In A Uniform” (song by band Gang Of Four), 105, 164
”I Love Ladies” (song by rapper Ice-T), 81
”I Need Love” (song by rapper LL Cool J), 165, 166, 292
”I Need Money” (song by female rap group BWP – - Bitches With Problems), 258, 261
”I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (song by rock band U2), 128
”I Wanna Be Black” (song by singer Lou Reed), 261
”I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” (song by Pop/R & B singer Whitney Houston), 68, 69-70
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film directed by Robert Zemeckis), 36
”I Want To Be Around To Pick Up The Pieces” (song in Terence Davies film Distant Voices, Still Lives), 134, 337
I Want To Know What Love Is (music video starring rock band Foreigner), 131
Vanilla Ice (rapper), 219, 261, 262
Ice Cube (rapper, actor), xvi, 156-159
Ice Cube and album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, 155
Michael Jackson’s Black or White and Ice Cube, 238
Death Certificate and Ice Cube, 286-287
Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, 353
Lethal Injection, 411-416
L.L. Cool J and Ice Cube, 165
N.W.A. and Ice Cube, 156
Sister Souljah and Ice Cube, 303-304
Willie D and Ice Cube, 312
Ice-T (rapper, actor), 79-81
Compromise by Ice-T, 306-308, 327
Ice Cube and Ice-T, 413
The Iceberg, 217
L.L. Cool J and Ice-T, 164, 165
Pimps, Players and Private Eyes compilation album, 443
Ice-T on President, 83
Realism of Ice-T, 104
Ice-T in Ricochet, 224, 227
The Iceberg (album by rapper Ice-T), 217
Iceberg Slim (author), 78, 79, 81
”I’d Rather Have Nothin’ All of the Time Than Somethin’ for a Little While” (song by Bert Williams), 50
”If” (song by singer Janet Jackson), 363
If I Had A Gun (Eastern Europe film), 140
If I Had My Life to Live Over” (song in The Long Day Closes – directed by Terence Davies), 340
”If You All Get To Heaven” (song by singer Terence Trent D’Arcy), 67
”If You Let Me Stay” (song by singer Terence Trent D’Arcy), 67
Ikettes (backup singers for bandleader, singer Ike Turner), 365
I’ll Fly Away (TV Program with actress Mary Alice), 372
”I’ll Never Turn My Back on You” (song by singer Terence Trent D’Arcy), 67
”I’ll Take You There” (song in the film Crooklyn sung by The Staple Singers), 427
”I’m a Ho” (song by rap group Whodini), 230
”I’m Bad” (song by Michael Jackson), 77, 164, 165
I’m Goin’ Out Lika Soldier (solo album by rapper Willie D), 311
”I’m Not Perfect” (song by disco singer Grace Jones), 55
”I’m Scared” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 413
I’m Still Standing (music video starring Elton John), 226
”I’m That Type Of Guy” (song by rapper L.L Cool J), 165, 166
Imitation Of Life (Hurst), 46
I’mo Git You Sucka (film directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans), 139
”In Dreams” (song in David Lynch’s, Blue Velvet), 300
In Dreams Begin Responsibilty (Delmore Schwartz), 29
In Living Color (TV Program), 174, 199, 230
In The Heat Of The Night (film directed by Norman Jewison), 3, 9, 10
Indecent Proposal (film directed by Adrian Lyne), 375, 377, 383
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 119-120, 404
Aladdin (Disney animated film) and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, 330
History and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, 403, 407
Landmark status of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, 118
Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 4, 45, 118-119, 120, 122
William Inge, 115
James Ingram (R & B singer), 66
The Inkwell (film directed by Matty Rich), 417, 425
”Inner City Blues” (song sung by singer Marvin Gaye), 415
Les Innocents (film directed by Andre Techine), 339
The Innocents (recording by musical group Erassure), 333
Inside Story (album by Grace Jones), 55-57
Institutional Radio Choir, 100, 101
”Interesting Drug” (song by singer Morrissey), 222
Interiors (film directed by Woody Allen), 60
Interview (periodical), 261
”Into The Groove” (song by Madonna), 131, 361
Into The Woods (Stephen Sondheim musical), 357
Intolerance (silent film directed by D.W. Griffith), 153
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arcy (album), 65-67
Intruder In The Dust (film directed by Clarence Brown), 147, 256
Invisible Man (book by Ralph Ellison), 189
Irene (MTV Real World participant/roomate), 397
The Iron Horse (silent film directed by John Ford), 120
Chris Issak (singer), 130
Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 331
Eiko Ishioka (production designer of Broadway play Madame Butterfly), 102
La Isla Bonita (music video starring Madonna), 130
Afrika Islam (musical producer for rapper Ice-T), 80-81
Nation of Islam see Nation Of Islam
Isley Brothers (R & B musical group), 200, 250
”It Doesn’t Have To Be Like That” (song by group Erasure), 333
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (album by rap group Public Enemy), xv, 103-105, 217, 352, 430
”It Was A Good Day” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 412
It’s A Gift (film starring W.C. Fields), 174
”It’s A Man’s World” (song by James Brown), 158
It’s A Wonderful Life (album by musical group Fishbone), 88
”I’ve Never Been in Love Before” (song sung by Barbara Streisand), 358
Burl Ives (actor), 214, 215
Dana Ivey (actress), 45
Judith Ivey (actress), 61-62
James Ivory (filmmaker/director), 417
J
LL Cool J see L.L. Cool J (rapper)
J. D. Steele Singers (gospel group), 100
J. T. (white rapper), 259
The Jackie Robinson Story (film), 29
Desreta Jackson (actress who played Young Celie in The Color Purple), 45-46
Freddie Jackson (R & B singer), 66
Janet Jackson (singer)
Alright, 195-196, 236
Control, 56, 194
janet, 360, 362-363
Love Will Never Do, 194-197, 196-197
Nasty, 78, 130
Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist), xiii, xiv, 182, 309
LaToya Jackson (isnger, Jackson sibling), 196
Michael Jackson (pop singer), xvi, 74-78
Black Or White, xv, 236-243
Terence Trent D’Arcy and Michael Jackson, 66
De La Soul is Dead album and Michael Jackson, 219
Glove of Michael Jackson, 18
Ice Cube and Michael Jackson, 414
Ice-T and Michael Jackson, 81
Mass consciousness of Michael Jackson, 34
Edmund Perry and Michael Jackson, 131
3 Feet High and Rising and Michael Jackson, 136
Mille Jackson (R & B singer), 248
Oshea Jackson see Ice Cube (rapper, actor)
Samuel L. Jackson (actor)
Samuel L. Jackson in Do The Right Thing, 124
Samuel L. Jackson in Fresh, 437-438
Samuel L. Jackson in Jungle Fever, 204
Samuel L. Jackson in Menace II Society, 349
Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, 440, 441, 442
Jackson Five (Motown musical group), 23
Harlan Jacobson (former editor of periodical Film Comment), xiii
Arthur Jafa (cinematographer of film Daughters Of The Dust), 270, 420
Mick Jagger (rock and roll singer, The Rolling Stones), 67
Prince Jahwell (member of rap group Son Of Bazerk), 249
Jimmy Jam (musician, musical producer), 195, 291, 362, 363
The Jam (musical group, song ”That’s Entertainment”), 222
James Hawthorn (actor in The Five Heartbeats), 200
janet (album by singer Janet Jackson), 360, 362-363
Derek Jarman (filmmaker/director), 294
Jaws (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 118, 403
Jesse Jaymes (white rapper), 261
”Jealous” (song), 167
Blind Lemon Jefferson (musician), 249
The Jeffersons (TV Program), 172, 372
Leonard Jeffries (professor), 226, 314, 436
J’embrasse pas (film directed by Andre Techine), 339
Juanita Jennings (actress in cable miniseries Laurel Avenue), 372, 373
Jesus Christ, 107, 112
”The Jew in the American Novel” (writer, Leslie Fiedler), 60-61
The Jewel in the Crown (TV program), 121
Norman Jewison (filmmaker/director), xiv, 9, 10,
JFK (film directed by Oliver Stone), 321
”Jingling Baby” (song by rapper L.L. Cool J), 165, 166-167
Jo Jo Dancer Your Life is Calling (film starring comic Richard Pryor), 49, 62
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (play by August Wilson), 84-86, 101, 171, 322
John (MTV Real World participant/roomate), 399
Elton John (singer), 226
Ariyan Johnson (actress in film Just Anothel Girl On The I.R.T.), 344, 345
Arnold Johnson (actor), 348
Carolyn W Johnson (filmmaker/co-director of semi-documentary, A Dream Is What You Wake Up From)., 28
Robert Johnson (blues singer), 283
Steve Johnson (Native American filmmaker/director of film South Central), 437
Carolyn Johnson-White (performer in musical The Gospel At Colonus), 101
Becky Johnston (screenwriter of film Under The Cherry Moon), 52
Grace Jones (disco singer, model), 55-57
James Earl Jones (actor), 14
Oran Juice Jones (singer), 66
Quincy Jones (musical producer), 47, 76, 78
Barbara Jordan (poltician), 309
Louis Jordan (singer, bandleader), 249
Neil Jordan (filmmaker/director), 35, 36
J.T. (white rapper), 259
Juice (film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Tupac Shakur), 344
Jules and Jim (film), 338
Isaac Julien (filmmaker/director), 294
”Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (film starring Whoopi Goldberg), 67
Jungle Brothers (rap group), 217
Jungle Fever (film directed by Spike Lee), 201-204, 231, 245, 321
Jurassic Park (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 378
Just Above My Head (James Baldwin), 57
Just Another Girl On The I.R.T. (film directed by Leslie Harris), 344-346
Just One Of The Guys (film), 32
Justify My Love (music video starring Madonna), 194
Justine (film), 181
K
Tonio K. (performer, musician), 17, 18
Pauline Kael (writer, critic), 338, 407
Franz Kafka (writer of the book, The Trial), 312
Matthias Kalin (cinematographer of director Idrissa Ouedraogo’s film Yaaba), 140
Tom Kalin (filmmaker/director of film Swoon), 293-300
Janusz Kaminsky (cinematographer), 402
Big Daddy Kane (rapper), 162, 261
Jonathan Kaplan (director of rock musician John Cougar Mellencamp’s music video, ”R. O. C. K. In the U. S. A.”) , 199
Anna Karina, 338
Philip Kaufman (director), 126, 182, 382-383
Kaygee (music producer, DJ for rap group Naughty By Nature), 234
Charles Keating, 261
Buster Keaton (silent film comedian, filmmaker/director, actor), 61, 380
Keep It Comin’, (recording by singer Keith Sweat), 292
Harvey Keitel (actor), 392, 393
David Patrick Kelly (actor in Spike Lee movie Crooklyn, also in Walter Hill movie The Warriors), 427
Gene Kelly (dancer, actor), 240, 340
Eddie Kendricks (singer on Motown Record Label), 66
Thomas Keneally (author of book, Schindler’s List), 407
John F. Kennedy (president), 321, 433
Kentucky Fried Movie (film), 63
Irving Kershner (filmmaker, director of The Empire Strikes Back), 118
Rolf Kestermann (cinematographer of Janet Jackson music video, ”Love Will Never Do (Without You)” ), 196
Keywords (book by Raymond Williams), 276
Kid Creole (musician, bandleader), 15
Kid Panic (musical group), 259, 261
Kill Uncle (album by Morrissey), 221, 222, 316
The Killer Of Sheep (film directed by Charles Burnett), 26, 256, 374,
Bless Their Little Hearts and The Killer Of Sheep, 21
Spike Lee and The Killer Of Sheep, xv
Menace II Society and The Killer Of Sheep, 420
To Sleep With Anger and The Killer Of Sheep, 169
”Killing Me Softly” (song by rapper Sister Souljah), 303, 304
Alan King (actor in Brian DePalma’s film, Bonfire Of The Vanities), 183
Erik King(actor in play Servy–N-Bernice 4 Ever), 245
Martin Luther King Jr. (civil rights activist), 69, 127, 146, 322, 328
Rodney King
Juror on Rodney King, 380
Malcolm X film and Rodney King, 322-323
The Predator (album by rapper Ice Cube), 413
Simi Valley aesthetics and Rodney King, 375, 378
Videotape of Rodney King, 376
White egocentricity and Rodney King, 382
Willie D (rapper from the rap group the Geto Boys) and Rodney King, 309, 311-313
King Of Comedy (film directed by Martin Scorsese), 7
King Sun (rapper), 261
Ben Kingsley (actor), 408
Terry Kinney (Director of play, Servy-N-Bernice 4 Ever), 245
Rudyard Kipling (author, novelist), 121
George Kirby (former comedian, ex-addict in director Tony Brown’s movie The White Girl), 150
Kiss Me Goodbye (film starring actor Jeff Bridges), 6
Kite (album by Kristy MacColl)), 211
”KKK Bitch” (song by rapper Ice-T), 306
Calvin Klein (clothing designer), 27, 262
Joe Klein (writer, columnist), 226
Kevin Kline, (actor), 281
Steve Kloves (filmmaker/director of the films The Fabulous Baker Boys and Racing with the Moon) 142-143, 144, 145
”Knee Deep” (song by band Funkadelic), 136
Knopfler, Mark Knopfler (songwriter of Tina Turner song, Private Dancer), 364
Kool and The Gang (musical group), 56
Kool Moe Dee, (rapper), 164, 165
Appolonia Kotero (actress), 11
Stanley Kramer (filmmaker/director), 202, 203
Kramer vs Kramer, (film), 3
Krays (60’s gangsters), 296
Jeff Kreines (co-director of documentary Seventeen,) 31, 38, 39, 40
KRS-One (rapper), 437
Ku Klux Klan
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (album by rapper, actor Ice Cube) and the Ku Klux Klan, 157
Ku Klux Klan in The Birth Of A Nation (film by silent film director D.W. Griffith), 46
Burning crosses of The Ku Klux Klan, 132
Madonna and The Ku Klux Klan, 239
The Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee film Malcolm X, 326, 327, 410
The Ku Klux Klan in Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, 111
The Ku Klux Klan in flim Places In The Heart, 5
White Dog (film directed by Sam Fuller) and The Ku Klux Klan, 213
Willy Kurant (cinematographer of Jean-Luc Godard film Masculine-Feminine), 34
Ellen Kuras (cinematographer of film Swoon), 294-295
Hanif Kureishi, 121
Akira Kurosawa (Japanese filmmaker, director), 201, 409
L
LL Cool J see LL Cool J (rapper)
”La Di- Da- Dee” (song by rappers MC Ricky Dee/Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh), 80
L. A. Weekly (periodical), 296
Patti Labelle (R & B singer), 15
Jacques Lacan, 293, 296, 297
”Lady Cab Driver” (song by musician, rock and roll singer Prince), 242
Lady In The Dark (George Gershwin Broadway musical), 362
Lady Sings The Blues (film starring Diana Ross), 12, 25, 49, 198, 199
Ricki Lake (actress, TV Host), 151
Mary Lambert (filmmaker/director), 53, 130, 131-132, 239
John Landis (filmmaker/director, Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video), 75, 236
The Landlord (film), 14, 15, 114, 327
Charles Lane (filmmaker/director), 27
Stephen Lang (actor in film Last Exit To Brooklyn), 151, 153
Frank Langella (actor), 331
Meyer Lansky, 265
Luis Lantigua (actor in film Fresh), 438
Allie Sharon Larkin (filmmaker/director of A Differnt Image), 27-28
Last Action Hero (film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), 378, 383
The Last Dragon (film starring actor Taimak and singer/Prince protege Vanity), 25
Last Exit To Brooklyn (film directed by Uli Edel), 151-153
”Last Of The Famous International Playboys” (song by Morrissey), 222
The Last Of The Mohicans (film directed by Michael Mann), 331-332, 377
The Last Picture Show (film directed by Peter Bogdonovich), 35, 42, 374
”The Last Resort” (song by rock band The Eagles), 415
Last Tango In Paris (film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), 162, 242, 373
The Last Temptation of Christ (film directed by Martin Scorsese), 112-113, 132, 176
”Last Night, Mauldin Street” (song by Morrissey), 318
The Late Show (film by director Robert Benton), 441
Stan Lathan (filmmaker/director), 13, 23-24, 29
Queen Latifah (rapper, actress), 234, 301, 302, 304
Cyndi Lauper (singer), 32
Laurel Avenue (TV film directed by Carl Franklin), 371-374
Law of Desire (film directed by Pedro Almovodar), 99
D.H. Lawrence (writer), 36
Gertrude Lawrence (stage actress), 362
Scott Lawrence (actor in Laurel Avenue), 372
Lawrence of Arabia (film directed by David Lean), 319
Leadbelly (film directed by Gordon Parks), 162
David Lean (filmmaker/director), 340
”Lean On Me” (song), 128
Norman Lear (TV producer/mogul), 172, 173, 206
Leatherstocking tales (James Fenimore Cooper), 331
Jean-Pierre Leaud (actor in film 400 Blows), 341
Led Zeppelin, (rock and roll band), 88, 250
Bill Lee (jazz musician, father of Spike Lee), 162
Bruce Lee (actor, martial arts star), 440
Cinque Lee (actor, brother of Spike Lee), 425
Daulton Lee, 37
Joie Susannah Lee (actress, Spike Lee Sister), 125, 161, 425
Laura Lee, 394
Peggy Lee (singer of song ”Fever”), 361
Spike Lee (filmmaker/director)
Crooklyn, 425-428
Brian DePalma and Spike Lee, 175, 326
Do The Right Thing see Do The Right Thing (film)
Sam Fuller and Spike Lee, 216
Jungle Fever, 201-204, 231, 245, 321
Malcolm X see Malcolm X (film)
Menace II Society and Spike Lee, 418
Mo’ Better Blues see Mo’ Better Blues (film)
Eddie Murphy (comedian, actor) and Spike Lee, 97
New Yorker (magazine) and Spike Lee, 274
Seth Avi Rosenfeld and Spike Lee, 245
She’s Gotta Have It see She’s Gotta Have It (film)
Robert Townsend and Spike Lee, 198
We Do Heads, 21
Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), 151, 153, 389, 391
Mike Leigh (filmmaker/director), 373, 390, 413, 417
Leon (actor), 130, 132, 199
Patrick Leonard (co-composer of Madonna song ”Like A Prayer”), 131
Sergio Leone (filmmaker/director), 441
Nathan Leopold, 293-300
Angela Leslie (actress), 188
Less Than Zero (film), 80, 82
Richard Lester (filmmaker/director), 33
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (book), 433
Lethal Injection (album by rapper Ice Cube), 411, 413-416
”Let’s Get It On” (song by Motown singer Marvin Gaye), 258
”Let’s Go Forward” (song by Terence Trent D’Arcy), 66
Ted Levine, 299
Barry Levinson (filmmaker/director), 265, 266, 280
Terry Lewis (music producer), 195, 196, 291, 362, 363
William T. Lhamon (author of book Deliberate Speed), 233-234
Liberace (pianist), 138
”Liberian Girl” (song by singer Michael Jackson), 76
Licensed to Ill (album by rap group Beastie Boys), 259
Life (periodical), 32
”Lifestyles of the Blacks in the Brick” (song by rap group Son Of Bazerk), 251-252, 353
Lifetime (cable network), 213
”Lift Him Up” (song in musical play, The Gospel At Colonus), 101, 102
Like A Prayer (Madonna music video), xv, 128-132, 154, 238, 239
”Like A Prayer” (song by pop singer Madonna), 128
”Lil Ass Gee” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 414
”Lil Ghetto Boy” (song by Dr. Dre), 354, 414
Lillies Of The Field (film starring Sidney Poitier), 2
Abbey Lincoln (actress, singer), 112
Delroy Lindo (actor), 84, 322, 427
John Lithgow (actor), 102, 224
Little Darlings (film starring Kristy McNichol), 215
The Little Mermaid (Disney animated film), 329
”Little Red Corvette” (song by musician, pop, rock and roll singer Prince), 242
”A Little Somethin” (song by rapper L. L. Cool J), 354
Live at Budokan (album by metal band Cheap Trick), 88
Live In Concert (film starring comedian Richard Pryor), 13, 15
Live Squad (rap group), 425
”Live Where You Can” (song in musical play The Gospel At Colonus), 100
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film), 119
Livin’ Large! (film), 230
Living Colour (rock and roll group), 87-89, 250
”Living for the City” (song by singer/musician Stevie Wonder), 34
LL Cool J (rapper)
Audience of L. L. Cool J, 430
Dr. Dre and L. L. Cool J, 354
Ice Cube and L. L. Cool J, 412, 414
Ice-T and L. L. Cool J, 79
”I’m Bad”, 77, 164, 165
Jungle Fever and L. L. Cool J, 204
Mama Said Knock You Out, 164-168, 217
Marky Mark and L. L. Cool J, 258, 261
Keith Sweat and L. L. Cool J, 291-292
Walking With a Panther, 165, 166, 167, 217
Walt Lloyd (cinematographer of Robert Altman movie Short Cuts), 389
Andrew Lloyd Webber, 358
Richard Loeb, 293-300
Lollapalooza Tour, 432
Lonesome Dove (TV Program), 110
The Long Day Closes (film directed by Terence Davies), 290, 336-342, 427
Long Day’s Journey into Night (play), 62, 133-134, 169, 340, 427
Long Dong Silver, (pornographic film), 232
The Long Goodbye (film directed by Robert Altman), 440
Looking for Langston (film directed by Issac Julien), 295
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, (film), 361
”Lord, We Invite You Here” (song by gospel musical group, Clinton Utterbach and The Praisers), 129
Los Angeles Police, 378
The Los Angeles Times, 77, 441
Los Hooligans (firm owned by filmmaker/director Robrt Rodriguez), 346
”Louder Than A Bomb” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 104
Louis, Lil (musical producer), 363
Love and Money (film by filmmaker/director, screenwriter James Toback), 264
The Love Bug (Disney film), 184
”Love Child” (song by Motown musical group Diana Ross and The Supremes), 362
A Love In Germany (film starring Hanna Schygulla), 22
”Love Is A Contact Sport” (song sung by Whitney Houston), 68
Love Me Or Leave Me (film), 337
A Love Supreme (recording by jazz musician John Coltrane), 162
”Love to Hate You” (song by musical group Erasure), 335
Love Will Never Do (Janet Jackson music video), 194-197, 196-197
”Love Will Never Do (Without You)” (song sung by Janet Jackson), 194, 195
Love Your Mama (film directed by Ruby L. Oliver), 343-344, 346, 426
The Lover (film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud), 331
”Lover Man” (song sung by singer Barbra Streisand), 356
Lovesexy (album by musician, pop/rock and roll singer Prince), 90-92, 93, 129
Loving (TV Program), 396
Lowe, Chris Lowe (member of musical group Pet Shop Boys), 385-386
Ernst Lubitsch (filmmaker/director), 122
George Lucas (filmmaker/director)
American Graffiti, 30, 32, 42, 124
Cooley High and George Lucas, 34
The Empire Strikes Back, 118
Return Of The Jedi, 4
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, 118, 119, 420
Star Wars, 120
Lucky Luciano (gangster in film Mobsters), 265
”Luck Be A Lady” (song sung by Barbra Streisand), 358
Lucky Star (Madonna music video), 131
Carl Lumbly (actor), 170, 321
Sidney Lumet (filmmaker/director), 179, 182
Patti LuPone (actress), 281
John Lydon (a.k.a Johnny Rotten, member of punk group Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd), 104, 158
Adrian Lyne, (filmmaker/director), 377
MC Lyte (rapper), 136, 301, 367-370
M
M. Butterfly (play by David Henry Hwang), 102
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (August Wilson play), 49, 85
Moms Mabley (comic, actress), 23
Diane McBain (actress, Warner Brothers contract youth of ’60s), 31
Cheryl McCall (co-director of documentary Streetwise), 31
Mary McCarthy, 37
Paul McCartney (singer, musician, member of Beatles), 76
Kirsty MacColl (British songwriter, singer ”Walking Down Madison”), 210-211, 212
Leigh McCormack (actor in Terence Davies film The Long Day Closes), 341
Hattie McDaniel (actress), 373
Darryl McDaniels (member of rap group Run-DMC), 71
Frances McDormand (actress), 389
Vonetta McGee (actress in To Sleep With Anger), 170, 171
Elizabeth McGovern (actress), 6
Lonette McKee (actress), 13, 14, 143, 204
Nina Mae MacKinney (actress), 130
Malcolm McLaren (music producer), 154
Fred MacMurray (actor), 230
Claudia McNeil (actress), 373
McNeil-Lehrer Newshour (TV Program), 205
Kristy McNichol (actress in Sam Fuller movie White Dog), 214, 215
Butterfly McQueen, 16
Frank McRae (actor in films Red Dawn, 1941), 7
John McTiernan (filmmaker/director), 378
Madame Butterfly (opera), 102
W. C. and the Madd Circle (musical group), 415-416
Made In U.S.A. (film), 126
Haki Madhubuti (author, poet), 255
”Madison” ”Walking Down Madison” (song), 211
Madonna (pop singer, actress)
David Bowie and Madonna, 242-243
Cherish and Madonna, 197
Madonna in Dick Tracy, 195
Janet Jackson and Madonna, 194, 360-363
Like A Prayer, xv, 128-132, 154, 238, 239
Tina Turner and Madonna, 365
Vogue, 154
Madonna and Child (film), 338
The Magnificent Ambersons (film), 133, 169, 185, 337, 340
Albert Magnoli (director and editor of film Purple Rain starring Prince), 12, 15
Mahogany (film starring Diana Ross), 25, 53
Norman Mailer (writer), 177, 258, 264
”Make It Funky” (song by rapper Ice-T), 80
”Make It Ruff, Make It Smooth” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 416
”Make Me Say Ooh!” (song by rapper/rap group Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch), 258
Make Room For Daddy (TV Program), 45
”Make You Sweat” (song by singer Keith Sweat), 292
”Makin’ Whoopee” (song in The Fabulous Baker Boys), 143
Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), 78, 103, 127, 312
Malcolm X (film), 319-328, 331
”A Change Is Gone Come” (Sam Cooke song) and Malcolm X, 423
Crooklyn and Malcolm X, 427
Schindler’s List and Malcolm X, 410
Trespass and Malcolm X, 376
Malcolm X Academy (Detroit), 308
Louis Malle (filmmaker/director), 35
Mark Malone (actor in Matty Rich film, Straight Out Of Brooklyn), 206
Tina Malone (actress in Terence Davies film The Long Day Closes), 342
Julianne Malveaux (journalist), 314, 315
Mama Said Knock You Out (LL Cool J album), 164-168, 217
”Mama’s Always on Stage” (song by rap group Arrested Development), 272
David Mamet (playwright, screenwriter), 8
Man Bites Dog (film), 381-382, 383
A Man Called Adam (film starring Sammy Davis Jr), 112, 162
”Man In The Mirror” (Michael Jackson song), 76, 243
The Man Who Lived Underground, (story by novelist Ricahrd Wright), 189
The Man Who Would Be King (film directed by John Huston starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine), 121
Nelson Mandela (human rights activist), 324, 327, 410
Mandingo (film), 8, 63
Manhattan (film directed by Woody Allen), 3, 60, 61
Michael Mann (filmmaker/director), 331-332, 377
”Mannequin” (Jean Rhys—caribbean writer), 57
”Mannish Boy” (song), 168
”Man’s Best Friend (is a gat)” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 286
Jayne Mansfield (actress), 196
Kiti Manver (actress in film directed by Pedro Almovodar, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown), 98
El Mariachi (film directed by Robert Rodriguez), 346
Mary Ellen Mark (co-director of doocumentary Streetwise), 31
Pigmeat Markham (comedian), 93, 174
Marky Mark, (rapper, actor), 245, 257-263
Marley Marl (music producer), 164, 165, 166, 167, 292
Johnny Marr (co-composer of song ”Madison” ”Walking Down Madison”), 211
Married To The Mob (film directed by Jonathan Demme), 142
Martha and the Vandellas (Motown musical group), 90
Dan Martin (character in HBO mini-series Laurel Avenue), 373
Lionel Martin (filmmaker/director), 270
Reginald Martin (Black scholar, co-editor of Erotique Noir/Black Erotica), 360
Groucho Marx (comic, actor), 64
Karl Marx, 69
Masculine-Feminine (film directed by Jean-Luc Godard), 34, 39
Pace Master Mase (rapper, member of rap group De La Soul), 136
Mask (film directed by Peter Bogdonovich), 34-35
Leopold von Sacher- Masoch, 294
Lynne Massie (subject of documentary Seventeen), 40
Master Of The House (film directod by Carl Dreyer), 341
Matador (film directed by Pedro Almovodar), 99
Matewan (film directed by John Sayles), 182
Johnny Mathis (singer), 358
Henri Matisse (painter), 201
Maude (TV Program), 172
Carmen Maura (actress in Pedro Almovodar’s Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown), 98
Curtis Mayfield (musician, singer), 13, 288
Paul Mazursky (filmmaker/director of film Moscow On The Hudson), 7, 280
Young MC (rapper), 260
MC Lyte (rapper) 136, 301, 367-370
M.C. Ren (rapper, member of rap group N.W.A.), 353
”Me and Mrs. Jones” (Billy Paul song), 233
”Me and My Shadow” (song in Terence Davies film, The Long Day Closes), 340
Me, Myself, an Eye (jazzz musician Charles Mingus composition), 136
”Me, Myself and I” (song by rap group De La Soul), 136, 218,
Mean Streets (film directed by Martin Scorsese),
Ethnicity of Mean Streets, 126
Honesty of Mean Streets, 161
Kinetics of Mean Streets, 15
”Living for the City” and Mean Streets, 34
Menace II Society and Mean Streets, 420
Mo’ Better Blues and Mean Streets, 160
Worldly-spiritual ambivalence in Mean Streets, 162
Russel Means (actor in director Michael Mann film, Last Of The Mohicans), 332
Nick Medley (actor in Haile Gerima film Sankofa), 423
Meet Me In St. Louis (film), 342
Mein Cock (film), 408
Melanie (singer), 393
John Cougar Mellencamp (rock and roll singer/musician), 199
Jean-Pierre Melville (filmmaker/director), 440
The Member of the Wedding (film), 115, 297
”Memories Can’t Wait” (Talking Heaeds song covered by band Living Colour), 88
Menace II Society (film), 347-351, 417-420
Dr. Dre and Menace II Society, 352
Laurel Avenue and Menace II Society, 371, 372, 373
MTV ”Movie Award” for Menace II Society, 430
Playwright criticism of Menace II Society, 374
Press acclaim for Menace II Society, 376
Rick Menello (co-screenwriter of Rick Rubin movie Tougher Than Leather), 72
Merchant Ivory Productions (firm), 331
The Merchant of Four Seasons (film), 152
Metallica (metal band), 283-284
Ron Metcalf (musical director of musical play Williams & Walker), 51
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 34, 207, 236, 337
Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of the films The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Ricochet) 44, 120, 226, 227
Eric Meza (filmmaker/director of Public Enemy Can’t Truss It music video), 422
Miami Blues (film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh), 153
George Michael (pop singer), 66, 91, 210
Oscar Micheaux (filmmaker/director), 13, 28, 150, 231
Michel’le (singer), 414
Mickey Mouse Club, 36
Middletown (TV Program), 38
Bette Midler (singer), 365
Midnight Cowboy (film starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman), 53
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (film directed by Woody Allen), 60
”Mighty Love” (song in film Crooklyn), 428
William Miles (documentarian), 25
John Milius (filmmaker/director/screenwriter), 408
Michael Milken, 261
”Milky Cereal” (song by rapper LL Cool J), 165, 167, 219
Henry Miller, (director of 1977’s Death Of A Dunbar Girl), 27
”Millie Pulled A Pistol on Santa” (song by rap group De La Soul), 218
Mind Benders (musical group), 261
”Mind Of A Lunatic” (song by rap group Geto Boys), 309, 311
”Mind’s Playing Tricks On Me” (song by rap group Geto Boys), 309
Charles Mingus (jazz musician), 136
Minneapolis sound, 248
Vincente Minelli (filmmaker/director), 135, 293, 340, 342
Mischief (film by Noel Black), 33
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), 57
Miss LonelyHearts (film), 297
Mississippi Burning (film), 109-113
The Blood Of Jesus and Mississippi Burning, 107
Critical acclaim for Mississippi Burning, 110, 376-377
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Mississippi Burning, 120
Like A Prayer and Mississsippi Burning, 132
Simi Valley Aesthetics and Mississippi Burning, 384
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 434
Joni Mitchell (singer, musician), 393-394
Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay, member of rap group Run-DMC), 71, 72
Mo’ Better Blues (film directed by Spike Lee), 160-163, 201
Crooklyn and Mo Better Blues, 427
The Five Heartbeats and Mo’ Better Blues, 198
Malcolm X and Mo’ Better Blues, 321
”Mama Said Knock You Out” and Mo’ Better Blues, 164
Ricochet and Mo’ Better Blues, 224
Mobsters (film), 265
Matthew Modine (actor), 37, 39, 40, 389
The Molly Maguires (film directed by Martin Ritt), 6
”Momma’s Gonna Die Tonight” (song by rapper Ice-T), 306
Money Don’t Mattter Tonight (Prince music video), 322
Isabell Monk (actress in The Gospel At Colonus), 101
Marilyn Monroe (actress), 99, 196
Monty Python (TV Program), 394
Monument Valley, 119
Lynne Moody (actress in White Dog), 215
Demi Moore (actress), 37, 377
Julianne Moore (actress), 389
Kaycee Moore (actress in film Bless Their Little Hearts), 21, 22, 268, 269
Rudy Ray Moore (comedian, actor), 139, 248
Jeanne Moreau (actress), 344
Audrey Morgan (actress in film Love Your Mama), 344
Giorgio Moroder (music producer), 246
Ennio Morricone (composer for films), 333
Jim Morrison (rock singer musician), 200, 321
Van Morrison (rock and roll band), 32-33
Morrissey (singer),
Kill Uncle, 221-223
Krays and Morrissey, 296
Morrissey on news, 264
Elvis Presley and Morrissey, 316-318
Public Enemy and Morrissey, xvi
”Rubber Ring,” 337-338
”Walking Down Madison” and, 211
Your Arsenal, xv, 307
Moscow on the Hudson (film), 2, 7
Bob Moses (civil rights activist), 434, 435
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (film), 152
Motown Records, 242, 248
”Move On” (song by Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet — Yaz), 333, 358
Alison Moyet (female partner of Vince Clarke in band Yaz), 333
Mr. Mom (film with John Hughes as screenwriter), 185
Mr. Scarface Is Back (album by rapper Scarface), 311
Mr. T. (80s TV personality, actor), 45
”Mr. Wendel” (song by rap group Arrested Development), 272
MTV (Music Television, cable television channel),
Complaints about MTV, 377
Hiphop and MTV, 430
Hughes Brothers and MTV, 347, 350, 351
Ice Cube and MTV, 286
Marky Mark and MTV, 260
Rap and MTV, 275
The Real World and MTV, 395-400
Elijah Muhammed (religious leader), 320
Russell Mulcahy (filmmaker/director), 226
Mules and Men (Zora Neale Hurston book), 276
Marilyn Mulford (co-director of documentary Freedom On My Mind), 433, 435
Paul Muni (actor), 5
Murmur of the Heart (film directed by Louis Malle), 35
Eddie Murphy (comic, actor)
Eddie Murphy in Best Defense, 21
Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, 31
Boomerang, 292, 347, 383
Coming To America, xvi, 94-97, 150
David Edwards and Eddie Murphy, 399
Exploitation of Eddie Murphy, 13
Eddie Murphy in 48 HRS., 187, 188
Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child, 59
Robin Harris and Eddie Murphy, 172
Grace Jones and Eddie Murphy, 57
Norman Lear and Eddie Murphy, 173
Robert Townsend and Eddie Murphy, 64
Albert Murray (critic, writer), 324
Jon Murray (syndicated TV salesman, created/produced MTV’s The Real World), 396
Muse Sick n Hour Mess Age (album by rap group Public Enemy), 431, 432
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 253, 322
Music for the People (album by rapper Marky Mark), 258, 259
”Music of the Night” (song by Barbra Streisand and Michael Crawford), 358
Muslim principles,103. See also Nation of Islam
Mutabaruka (reggae star in film Sankofa), 424
Floyd Mutrux (filmaker/director of film American Hot Wax), 36
”My Brother’s A Basehead” (song by rap group De La Soul), 218, 261
My Brother’s Wedding (film directed by Charles Burnett), 21, 26, 169
”My Buddy” (song by rap group De La Soul), 138
”My God Is A Powerful God” (song by rapper Sister Souljah), 303
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (recording/album), 104
My Life to Live (film by director Jean-Luc Godard), 41, 138
My Little Village (film), 140
”My Mind’s Playing Tricks On Me” (song by rap group Geto Boys), 252
”My October Symphony” (song by Pet Shop Boys), 386
My Own Private Idaho (film starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix), 351, 374
”My Skin Is My Sin” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 415-416
”My Yiddishe Mama” (song in Terence Davies film Distant Voices, Still Lives), 134
N
”N-41” (song by rap group Son Of Bazerk), 250
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement Of Colored People), 213, 214, 215, 216, 255
Desmond Nakano (screenwriter of film Last Exit To Brooklyn), 151, 152
The Naked Kiss (film), 214
”The Name of The Lord” (gospel song by Clinton Utterbach and the Praisers), 129
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 330
Nashville (film directed by Robert Altman), 4, 143, 176
Distant Voices, Still Lives and Nashville, 340
Laurel Avenue and Nashville, 372
Purple Rain and Nashville, 15
Short Cuts and Nashville, 388, 391
Nasty (Janet Jackson msuic video), 78, 130
The Nation (periodical), 378, 404
Nation Of Islam, 322, 415, see also Musilm principles
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 213, 214, 215, 216, 255
National Broadcasting Company (TV network, NBC), 213
”The National Front Disco” (song by Morrissey), 316, 317, 318
National Lampoon’s Vacation (film series), 185
National Organization for Women (NOW), 255
National Society of film Critics, 280
Native Son (1951 film adaptation of Richard Wright novel), 24
The Natural (film starring Robrt Redford), 6
”Natural” (song by rap group Arrested Development), 272
Naughty By Nature (rap group), 233-235, 260, 290, 291
Nazism, 122, 215, 403, 404, 407
NBC (National Broadcasting Company, TV network), 213
Liam Neeson (actor in Stevn Spielberg film Schindler’s List), 404
Jean Negulesco, 37
Sam Neill (actor in film The Piano), 392
Nelson George (journalist, movie producer, screenwriter), 276-277
Sean Nelson (actor in film Fresh), 436
”Nervous” (1990 song by musical group, The Pet Shop Boys), 386
Eliot Ness, 178
New American Cinema, 255
New Directors/New Films series, 253
New Jack City (film directed by Mario Van Peebles), 227, 251, 276
New Jersey Mass Choir, 131
New Kids on the Block (musical group, boy band), 258
The New Land (film directed by Jan Torell), 270
New Music Seminar, 307
New Musical Express (periodical), 55, 82, 331
New Order (musical group), 239, 272
The New Republic (periodical), 408
New Wave films, 176, 226, 336, 338, 440
New York (periodical), 324, 419, 440
New York Dolls (musical group), 75, 221
New York Film Critics Circle, 407, 417
New York Film Festival, 8, 253-254
New York Film Forum, 20, 213, 253, 433
New York, New York (film), 160
New York Post (newspaper), 203
The New York Times (newspaper)
The New York Times on Black Joy, 256
The New York Times on Black-Jewish relations, 314
The New York Times on The Broadway Album (Barbra Streisand), 357
disbelief of The New York Times, 182
The New York Times on Fresh, 438
The New York Times on The Gospel At Colonus, 100
hiphoppers and The New York Times, 415
The New York Times on Menace II Society, 417-418 419
Op-ed section of The New York Times, 287
Parody of The New York Times, 181
The New York Times on Matty Rich, 205
The New York Times on Schindler’s List, 408
Tupac Shakur and The New York Times, 416
The New York Times on Snoop Doggy Dogg, 430
The New York Times on Strictly for My N. I. G. G. A. Z. (Tupac Shakur album), 411
New York University, 161
The New Yorker (periodical), 147, 274, 418, 420
Newark Black Film Festival, 28
Alfred Newman (composer of 20th Century-Fox fanfare), 341
Paul Newman (actor), 10, 53
Huey Newton (civil rights activist, member and founder of The Black Panther Party), 136, 137
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (film directed by Paul Mazursky), 7
Next Wave Fesitival, 100
”N-41” (song by rap group Son Of Bazerk), 250
Nicholas Brothers (dancers, actors), 196
Mike Nichols (filmmaker/director), 13
Stevie Nicks, (singer, member of pop/rock group Fleetwood Mac), 209
Eric Nies (MTV Real World participant/roomate, hsot of MTV’s The Grind), 396
Friedrich Nietzche, 295
Niggas with Attitude (rap group, N. W. A.), 155-156, 157, 166, 353
”Niggaz with Latitude” (Henry Louis Gates article in the New Yorker), 418
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (film starring River Phoenix), 393
Night Of The Hunter (film directed by actor Charles Laughton), 125
”Night Of The Living Baseheads” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 104, 139
Nightclubbing (1981 album by disco singer Grace Jones), 55
”Nighttrain” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 310, 412
Nikki D, (rapper), 234, 345
1941 (film directed by Steven Spielberg), 2, 402, 403, 405, 407
1900 (film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), 249
1999 (album by Prince), 76, 241
Willie Ninja (dancer), 154
Marcus Nispel (filmmaker/director), xiv, 190, 191
Cynthia Nixon (actress in play Servy-N-Bernice 4 Ever), 245
NKOTB (New Kids On The Block), 258
”No Nose Job” (song by rap group Digital Underground), 331
”No One Like You” (gospel song by Clinton Utterbach and the Praisers), 129
No Self-Control Band (musical group, part of rap group Son Of Bazerk), 248, 249
”Nobody” (Bert Williams song), 50
Nobody: An Evening with Bert Williams (muscial of Bert Williams songs and vaudeville routines assembled and structured by Vincent D. Smith), 48
Noel (singer of ”Silent Morning”, produced by Robert Cliviles and David Cole), 192
Nick Nolte (actor in Martin Scorsese film Cape Fear), 376
Norma Rae (film directed by Martin Ritt), 6
Nothing But A Man (film directed by Michael Roemer and Robert Young), 25, 112
”November Spawned A Monster” (song by Morrissey), 222
NOW (National Organization for Women), 255
”Now Let the Weeping Cease” (song in musical The Gospel At Colonus), 101
Bill Nunn (actor in film Do The Right Thing), 125
Sven Nykvist (cinematographer), 201
O
Austin O’Brien (actor, protagonist in film The Last Action Hero), 378
Obsession (film directed by Brian DePalma), 176
”The Obvious Child” (Paul Simon music video), 195
George T. Odom (actor in film Straight Out Of Brooklyn), 206, 207
Oedipus at Colonus (play by Sophocles), 100
Of Human Bondage (film starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard), 23
Of The Heart, Of The Soul, Of The Spirit, and Of The Cross (album), 271
Off The Wall (album by Michael Jackson), 76, 241
An Officer and A Gentleman (film starring Richard Gere and Louis Gossett Jr), 8, 11
Ed O. G., (rapper from Boston), 260
O. G. : Original Gangster (album by rapper Ice-T), 217
Oyafunmike Ogunlano (model, actress in film Sankofa), 421
”Oh, L’amour” (song by musical group Erasure), 333
Catherine O’ Hara (actress in film Home Alone), 186
Old Testament, 129
Los Olvidados (film directed by Luis Bunuel), 206
Denise Oliver (screenwriter of Warrington Hudlin’s film Color), 27
Ruby L. Oliver, (filmmaker/director – ”Love Your Mama”), 343-344, 345, 346, 426
”On The Radio” (song by musical group Cheap Trick), 88
On The Waterfront (film directed by Elia Kazan), 151
”Once Upon A Time in the Projects” (song by rapper Ice Cube), 158
One False Move (film directed by Carl Franklin), 373
”One Hand, One Heart” (song by Barbra Streisand/Johnny Mathis), 358
”One In A Million” (song by musical group The Pet Shop Boys), 386
”One Perfect Rose” (Dorothy Parker), 57
One Potato, Two Potato (1964 film directed by Larry Peerce), 25, 112
”One Time for The Rebel” (song by rap group Son Of Bazerk), 250
One Trick Pony (film), 12
Alexander O’Neal (R & B singer), 66
Ron O’Neal (actor in film Superfly), 79
Eugene O’Neill, 62, 133-134, 169, 340, 427
”Oodles of O’s” (song by rap group De La Soul), 219
”Ooh Child” (song that influenced De La Soul song ”Talkin’ Bout Hey Love”), 219, 428
Open City (film), 21
”Open Letter to A Landlord” (song by musical group Living Colour), 88
”O. P. P.” (song by rap group Naughty By Nature), 233-235, 260, 367
Orientalism, 329, 361
Orphans Of The Storm (silent film directed by silent film director D. W. Griffith), 46, 408
Jeffrey Osborne (R & B singer), 66
Oscars see Academy Awards
Sam O’Steen (editor, filmmaker/director of film Sparkle), 13
Idrissa Ouedraogo (filmmaker/director of film Yaaba), 139-141, 201, 270
Noufou Ouedraogo (actor in film Yaaba), 140
”Our Most Requested Record” (song by rapper Ice-T), 81
Our Town (play by Thornton Wilder), 336, 341
Out Of Africa (film directed by Sydney Pollack), 96, 120
Outrageous Fortune (film), 96
The Outsiders (film directed by Francis Ford Coppola), 31, 33, 34, 176
Ayse Owens (actress in Terence Davies film The Long Day Closes), 342
Yasujiro Ozu (filmmaker/director), 134, 341
P
Pace Master Mase (rapper, member of rap group De La Soul), 136
Al Pacino (actor), 332
I Pagliacci (opera). 50
”Paint It Black” (song by musical group The Rolling Stones), 83
Robert Palmer (critic), 283
Joseph Papp (theatre director), 116
Parade (album by Prince, soundtrack to film Under The Cherry Moon), 52, 55-56
Paramount Pictures Corporation, 106, 213, 214, 215, 216
Paramount Theater (New York City), 316
Paris (rapper), 319
Paris Blues (film starring Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier), 53
Paris Is Burning (film, documentary) 253, 254
Alan Parker (filmmaker/director),
The Blood Of Jesus and Alan Parker, 107
Shoot The Moon, 4, 169, 427
Unscroupulousness of Alan Parker, 110-111, 337
White audiences and Alan Parker, 109
Dorothy Parker, 57
Gordon Parks (photographer, filmmaker/director of Leadbelly), 162
Parliaments (musical group led by funk musician George Clinton), 353
The Parson’s Widow (film directed by Carl Dreyer), 141
The Partridge Family (TV Program), 425
A Passage to India (film directed by David Lean), 121
A Patch of Blue (film starring actor Sidney Poitier), 112
Pather Panchali (film directed by Satyajit Ray), 5, 21, 140, 206, 436
Jason Patric (actor in film After Dark My Sweet), 161
Billy Paul (singer of song, ”Me And Mrs. Jones”), 233
Prince Paul (music producer), 137
Paul’s Boutique (album by The Beastie Boys), 138
Bill Paxton (actor in film One False Move), 373
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), 28, 40
American Playhouse, 24, 207
The Civil War, 377
The Gospel at Colonus, 100
McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, 205
Middletown, 38
Praise House, 269
”Peace” (song by rapper Marky Mark Wahlberg), 261
Peanuts (comic strip by Charles Schultz), 426
”Pease Porridge” (song by rap group De La Soul), 219
Gregory Peck (actor in film Gentleman’s Agreement), 266
Sam Peckinpah, (filmmaker/director), 118, 255
Larry Peerce (filmmaker/director of 1964 film One Potato, Two Potato), 25
Peking Opera, 102
Teddy Pendergrass (R & B singer), 246
Arthur Penn (filmmaker/director ”Bonnie and Clyde”), 1, 379
Chris Penn (actor in Robert Altman film Short Cuts), 389
Sean Penn (actor in Brian DePalma film Casualties Of War), 180
Pennies from Heaven (film directed by Herbert Ross starring Steve Martin), 4, 134
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (album by rap group A Tribe Called Quest), 217
Rosie Perez (actress in Do The Right Thing), 123, 124
Anthony Perkins (actor), 297, 298, 299, 300
Edmund Perry (Black private school student murdered by white cops), 77, 131
Shauneille Perry (staged musical play Williams & Walker), 50
Persian Gulf War, 185-186, 210
Persona (film directed by Ingmar Bergman), 394
Pet Shop Boys (musical group), 334, 385-387
Jon Peters (film executive), 175
Shep Pettibone (songwriter/music producer ”Vogue”), 154, 361
Michelle Pfeiffer (actress), 142-145, 150, 196
”A Phatasmagorical Entertainment” (musical group Erasure’s touring show), 333
Phantom Of The Paradise (film directed by Brian DePalma), 35, 36, 176
Phedre (play), 269
Anna Hamilton Phelan (screenwriter of film Mask), 35
Phil Donahue Show (TV Program), 380
Philadelphia (film directed by Jonathan Demme), 434
Joseph C. Phillips (actor in film Strictly Business), 229, 230, 231
River Phoenix (actor), 120, 393
The Piano (film directed by Jane Campion), 392-394
Pablo Picasso, (painter) 43
The Pick Up Artist (film directed by James Toback), 264
Pick Up On South Street (film directed by Sam Fuller), 214
Wilson Pickett, (singer), 66, 67
A Piece Of The Action (film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring himself and Bill Cosby), 77
Pimp (book by Iceberg Slim), 81
”Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (Somebody Gotta Do It)” (song by rapper Ice-T), 81
Pimps, Players and Private Eyes (compilation album), 443
Jada Pinkett (actress in film Menace II Society), 348, 349, 350
Zasuo Pitts (actor in Stroheim silent film Greed), 377
A Place In The Sun (film), 297
A Place In Time (1977 film directed by Charles Lane), 27
Places In The Heart (film directed by Robert Benton), 2-3, 4-5, 6
Hollywood awareness of Places In The Heart, xv
An Officer and a Gentleman and Places In The Heart, 8
Purple Rain and Places In The Heart, 15
A Soldier’s Story and Places In The Heart, 10
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (film), 185
”Play That Funky Music, White Boy” (1975 song by Average White Band or Wild Cherry), 87
The Player (film directed by Robert Altman), 441
The Pleasure Principle (Janet Jackson music video), 194
Suzanne Plesbette (actress), 31
Amanda Plummer (actress in film Pulp Fiction), 440
Glenn Plummer (actor in film South Central), 349
PM Dawn (musical group), 271, 272
Poetic Justice (film directed by John Singleton starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur), 371
Poison (film directed by Todd Haynes), 254, 296
Sidney Poitier (actor, filmmaker/director),
direction by Sidney Poitier, 26
eclipse of Sidney Poitier, 3
Danny Glover and Sidney Poitier, 47
Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, 202
Michael Jackson and Sidney Poitier, 77
Sidney Poitier in Paris Blues, 53
J. C. Phillips and Sidney Poitier, 231
Sidney Poitier in Pressure Point, 216
Sidney Poitier in race-sensitive films, 112
relative importance of Sidney Poitier, 256
representativeness of Sidney Poitier, 10
Ricochet and Sidney Poitier, 225
A Soldier’s Story and Sidney Poitier, 9
Sydney Pollack (filmmaker/director), 143, 280
”Pollywannacracka” (song by rap group Public Enemy), 203
Gillo Pontecorvo (filmmaker/director, Battle Of Algiers) 408, 423
”Poor Jenny” (song by rap group De La Soul), 362
Pop! (album by musical group Erasure), 334
Porgy and Bess (opera by George Gershwin), 102
Porkys (film), 39
Saint Martin de Porres, 130
Posdonus (rapper from group De La Soul), 136, 137
”Potholes In My Lawn” (song by rap group De La Soul), 138
Dennis Potter, 134
Colin Powell, 322
Kevin Powell (writer, journalist, MTV Real World participant/roomate), 398
Laurence Powell (police officer who helped beat Rodney King), 382
Ann Power (journalist), 351
John Powers (journalist), 296
Prairie House (PBS film by Julie Dash), 269
Praisers (gospel music group), 129
”Praying For Time” (song by George Michael), 210
”Precious Lord, Take My Hand” (gospel song used in film Sankofa), 423, 424
”Precious Memories” (song by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in film To Sleep With Anger), 170
The Predator (album by rapper Ice Cube), 411-413
Premiere (periodical), 254
Elvis Presley (rock and roll singer)
Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, 75
Morrissey and Elvis Presley, 316, 317
Michelle Pfeiffer and Elvis Presley, 142
Prince and Elvis Presley, 12
Public Enemy and Elvis Presley, 327
Pressure Point (film starring Sidney Poitier), 112, 216
Presumed Innocent (film), 176, 227
Pretty Woman (film starring Ricahrd Gere and Julia Roberts), 186, 232
Richard Price (novelist, screenwriter of Michael Jackson ”Bad” film/music video directed by Martin Scorsese), 76, 77
Prince (rock/pop/R & B singer, music producer, actor)
The Black Album, 90, 92-93, 250
Terence Trent D’Arcy and Prince, 66
Gospel music and Prince, 128
Michael Jackson and Prince, 76
Spike Lee and Prince, 322
”Little Red Corvette”, 242
Living Colour and Prince, 88
Lovesexy, 90-92, 93, 129
Mainstream success of Prince, 325
1999 (album by Prince), 241
Purple Rain see Purple Rain (film)
Son Of Bazerk and Prince, 248, 250
Speech (of rap group Arrested Development) and Prince, 271
Under The Cherry Moon, 52-54, 55-56
Akili Prince (actor in Bill Gunn play The Forbidden City), 114, 117
Prince Jahwell (rapper from group Son Of Bazerk), 249
Prince of The City (film directed by Sidney Lumet), 182
The Prince Of Tides (film directed by Barbra Streisand), 336
Prince Paul (music producer), 137
Principles of Physical Geology (Arthur Holm textbook), 341
Private Dancer (Tina Turner music video), 365
”Private Dancer” (Tina Turner song written by Mark Knopfler), 364-365
Professor Griff (member of rap group Public Enemy), 431
”Proud Mary” (Tina Turner/Ike Turner song), 364, 365
”Proud To Be From Compton?” (comic Robin Harris album track), 174
Marcel Proust, 337
Provincetown Playhouse, 244
Richard Pryor (comic, actor)
Black comics and Richard Pryor, 172, 173
Richard Pryor in Car Wash, 413
Richard Pryor in Jo Jo Dancer Your Life is Calling, 49, 62
Grace Jones and Richard Pryor, 57
Richard Pryor in Live In Concert film, 13
Eddie Murphy and Ricahrd Pryor, 96
J. C. Phillips and Richard Pryor, 231
Richard Pryor in Superman III, 13
Richard Pryor in The Toy, 13
Psycho (film directed by Alfred Hitchcock), 297, 298-299
”P. T. L. Show” (TV Program), 129
Public Broadcasting Service see PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
Public Enemy (rap group), xiv
Black or White and Public Enemy, 239
Chuck D. and Public Enemy, 155
De La Soul and Public Enemy, 217
disrespect for Public Enemy, 285
Do The Right Thing and Public Enemy, 123, 125
Dr. Dre and Public Enemy, 355
Yusef Hawkins and Public Enemy, 413
Ice Cube and Public Enemy, 412
Ice-T and Public Enemy, 306
It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, xv, 103-105, 217, 352, 430
Jungle Fever and Public Enemy, 203
LL Cool J and Public Enemy, 166, 167
mainstream ideology and Public Enemy, 430, 431-432
Marky Mark and Public Enemy, 262
Lionel Martin and Public Enemy, 270
Morrissey and Public Enemy, xvi
”Night Of The Living Baseheads”, 104, 139
N. W. A. And Public Enemy, 156, 157
pop tradition and Public Enemy, 327
rhetoric of Public Enemy, 288
Ricochet and Public Enemy, 226
Rolling Stone on Public Enemy, 429
Rick Rubin and Public Enemy, 71
Run-DMC and Public Enemy, 72
Eric Sadler and Public Enemy, 302
Sankofa and Public Enemy, 423
Sister Souljah and Public Enemy, 301
3 Feet High and Rising and Public Enemy, 136
Willie D and Public Enemy, 311
Yo! Bum Rush The Show, 82-83
Public Image Ltd. (musical group with John Lydon), 104, 158
Public Theater (New York), 114
Giacomo Puccini, 102
Willard Pugh (actor in Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple), 47
Pulp Fiction (film directed by Quentin Tarantino), 439-443
”Pump It Up” (song by Elvis Costello), 242
Puppies (musical group), 430
Purple Rain (film), xiv, 2, 11-13, 14-15, 16
Goonies and Purple Rain, 37
Under The Cherry Moon and Purple Rain, 52, 53
The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985 film directed by Woody Allen), 24, 60, 378-380, 383
”Put the Blame on Mame” (song/striptease performed by Rita Hayworth in 1946 film Gilda), 144
Putney Swope (film directed by Robert Downey), 29, 348
”P. Y. T.” (song by pop singer Michael Jackson), 76
Q
Q&A (film directed by Sidney Lumet), 176, 182
Dan Quayle, (vice-president), 377
Queen Latifah (rapper), 234, 301, 302, 304
R
David Rabe (playwright, Streamers), 8
Racing with the Moon (film directed by Steve Kloves), 142
Radio (album by rapper LL Cool J), 165
Radio City Music Hall, 364
Radio Days (film directed by Woody Allen), 58-64, 124
Radioactive (recording), 259