Here's some of what I know is available on movie theaters for African Americans. Some of it talks a bit about black audiences. Mary Carbine, "'The Finest Outside the Loop': Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928," *Camera Obscura* 23 (1990), 9-42. [Great bibliography] Doug Gomery, *Shared Pleasures* (Wisconsin 1993 [I think]). [Chapter on theaters for black Americans.] Dan Streible, "The Harlem Theater: Black Film Exhibition in Austin, Texas, 1920-1973," *Black American Cinema*, ed. Manthia Diawara (Routledge 1993). Greg Waller, *Mainstreet Amusements* (forget subtitle) (Smithsonian 1995 [I think, maybe 1994]). [Has sections on black cinema-going in Louisville] Jacqueline Bobo has written about black women as interpreters of American cinema; bell hooks too. James Baldwin's *The Devil Finds Work* talks about being a member of a black film audience, as does Ellison's "The Shadow and the Act" (the essay, not the whole book). Nelson George's *Blackface* too. Many essays and much fiction by black authors touch on these topics. Happy hunting. Arthur Knight College of William & Mary ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]