Hip Hop in American Cinema examines the manner in which American feature films have served as the primary medium for mainstreaming hip hop culture into American

Sociologist S. Craig Watkins shows how the black film wave has transformed the concept and representation of "blackness" in America. Watkins contends that despi

A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history

This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims