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- Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: the African American image in film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
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- Willis, Sharon The Poitier effect : racial melodrama and fantasies of reconciliation. Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, cop. 2015.