Acknowledgements
Killer of Sheep: Charles Burnett and the Poetry of Oppression
David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin
PART ONE: Situating Killer of Sheep: Time/Place/Circumstance
Cinema and Black Liberation (David E. James)
Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles Collective of Black Filmmakers (Michael T. Martin)
Charles Burnett: A Reconsideration of Third Cinema (Amy Ongiri)
Charles Burnett—Consummate Cineaste (Michael T. Martin)
PART TWO: Reading Killer of Sheep
Toward a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics: Representations of Los Angeles in Non-Industrial Cinema – [Charles Burnett's] Killer of Sheep (David E. James)
An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo) Realism, and the Documentary
Impulse (Paula J. Massood)
Neo-Realism Meets the Blues in Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (Keith Mehlinger)
Killer of Sheep (James Naremore)
Killer of Sheep (Jeffrey Skoller)
Nous revenons à nos moutons: Regarding Animals in Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (Sarah O'Brien)
PART THREE
Screenplay
Biography and Filmography
Index