Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Once upon a time in the West . . . L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor
  • Introduction: Emancipating the image-the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers /Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
  • Threads and nets: the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans
  • Rebellious unlearning: UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field
  • Tough enough: Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak
  • Anticipations of the rebellion: black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James
  • Re/soundings: music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey
  • Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin
  • Bruising moments: affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard
  • The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
  • Encountering the rebellion: liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo
  • L.A. Rebellion oral histories.