Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)Christina N. Bakers Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book length analysis of representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing meanings of Blackness that draw from their personal experiences and create new symbolic meaning of Black femaleness within mainstream culture.