Militant Visions

"Reich's book is always informed, and its value is enhanced by 32 pages of footnotes and 6 pages of bibliography … Recommended."

~Choice

"In this revelatory revisionist history of twentieth-century American film, Reich demonstrates that the figure of the black soldier has served as a lightning rod for a welter of national anxieties around race, masculinity, and allegiance."

~Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora

“Militant Visions is an engaging and welcome contribution to a vibrant field of emerging scholarship on African American film and media.”

~Kara Keeling, author of The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

"Militant Visions uncovers a crucial, previously hidden dimension of American filmmaking, and of African American film spectatorship and response, showing how cinematic representations of black masculinity from the Forties to the Seventies contributed to the larger social movement for black emancipation."

~Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University