Ed Guerrero is an African-American film historian and professor of film and African-American studies at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

. Professor Guerrero's influential books explore black cinema, its movies, culture and critical discourse. Ed Guerrero's books are: Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film" (Temple U. Press), and "Do the Right Thing" (British Film Institute) Modern Classics Series. He has written extensively on black cinema, its movies, politics and culture for numerous anthologies and journals such as
Sight & Sound, FilmQuartely, Cineaste

Cineaste

Cineaste is a film magazine published quarterly. It has been publishing reviews, in-depth analyses and interviews since 1967. The magazine independently operates out of New York City with no financial ties to any film studios or academic institutions...

, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Discourse. Guerrero has served on many editorial and professional boards including The Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board.

External links & Citations

Theatre Library Association, Award Winners, 1994 "Honorable Mention" for FRAMING BLACKNESS: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGE IN FILM
by Ed Guerrero. Temple U. Press, 1993.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/the_velvet_light_trap/v064/64.article01_sub12.html

[African Americans in the Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in UC Berkeley Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanAmBib.html#bks
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanAmBib.html#blaxploitation

Hayward, Susan, CINEMA STUDIES: KEY CONCEPTS, Third Edition. (London & New York, Routledge: 2006)47,57.

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