The World of Black Film - A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films

An entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the world.

About the author

Ashley Clark is a writer, broadcaster, and film programmer. He has organized numerous film seasons at international venues including London's BFI Southbank, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Toronto's TIFF Lightbox. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Sight & Sound, and he is the author of Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2015). Ashley was born in London, lives in Jersey City, and works in New York, where he has been the curatorial director of the Criterion Collection since 2020.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Clark
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.02.2026
• EAN: 9781529438253
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-3825-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Illustrations: c300 colour photos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; ART / Film & Video, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Films, cinema, Film: styles & genres, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage