Daniel Dufournaud is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton (EUP, 2024). His work appears in such journals as Poetics Today, College Literature, Studies in the Novel, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of American Studies.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Singleton AgonistesDaniel DufournaudPart I. Singleton’s Themes and Tropes1. Failed Mothers in Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyIndya J. Jackson2. Can Daddy Save the Day?: On John Singleton’s Use of Realist Fantasy in Boyz N the Hood, Baby Boy and RosewoodAngela TharpePart II. Singleton’s Politics of Resistance3. Black Men Loving Black Men and the Centrality of Women in John Singleton’s Films: A BlackCrit, Queer, Feminist AnalysisMartez Files, Dominique J. Hector, and Victor Terry4. Running from Predation: Hush Harbors and the Place of Black Student (Bodies) in Higher LearningKhirsten L. Scott and Ariana Denise BrazierPart III. Singleton and African American Literature5. “Hope to God There’s Another Place that’s Better than This”: Blues Spaces and The PittsburghCycle in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyTrevon Pegram6. Love and Black Privacy: Watching John Singleton with James BaldwinDaniel DufournaudPart 4. Singleton and History7. The Shadow of the Past: Hauntology, Melancholia, and Rosewood as Reparative NarrativeEd Cameron and Linda Belau8. “The Ghetto Game of Thrones”: Snowfall, Auteur Theory, and Historiographic TelevisionDaniel Dufournaud

Daniel Dufournaud is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton (EUP, 2024). His work appears in such journals as Poetics Today, College Literature, Studies in the Novel, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of American Studies.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Singleton AgonistesDaniel DufournaudPart I. Singleton’s Themes and Tropes1. Failed Mothers in Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyIndya J. Jackson2. Can Daddy Save the Day?: On John Singleton’s Use of Realist Fantasy in Boyz N the Hood, Baby Boy and RosewoodAngela TharpePart II. Singleton’s Politics of Resistance3. Black Men Loving Black Men and the Centrality of Women in John Singleton’s Films: A BlackCrit, Queer, Feminist AnalysisMartez Files, Dominique J. Hector, and Victor Terry4. Running from Predation: Hush Harbors and the Place of Black Student (Bodies) in Higher LearningKhirsten L. Scott and Ariana Denise BrazierPart III. Singleton and African American Literature5. “Hope to God There’s Another Place that’s Better than This”: Blues Spaces and The PittsburghCycle in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyTrevon Pegram6. Love and Black Privacy: Watching John Singleton with James BaldwinDaniel DufournaudPart 4. Singleton and History7. The Shadow of the Past: Hauntology, Melancholia, and Rosewood as Reparative NarrativeEd Cameron and Linda Belau8. “The Ghetto Game of Thrones”: Snowfall, Auteur Theory, and Historiographic TelevisionDaniel Dufournaud

Daniel Dufournaud is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton (EUP, 2024). His work appears in such journals as Poetics Today, College Literature, Studies in the Novel, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of American Studies.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Singleton AgonistesDaniel DufournaudPart I. Singleton’s Themes and Tropes1. Failed Mothers in Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyIndya J. Jackson2. Can Daddy Save the Day?: On John Singleton’s Use of Realist Fantasy in Boyz N the Hood, Baby Boy and RosewoodAngela TharpePart II. Singleton’s Politics of Resistance3. Black Men Loving Black Men and the Centrality of Women in John Singleton’s Films: A BlackCrit, Queer, Feminist AnalysisMartez Files, Dominique J. Hector, and Victor Terry4. Running from Predation: Hush Harbors and the Place of Black Student (Bodies) in Higher LearningKhirsten L. Scott and Ariana Denise BrazierPart III. Singleton and African American Literature5. “Hope to God There’s Another Place that’s Better than This”: Blues Spaces and The PittsburghCycle in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood and Baby BoyTrevon Pegram6. Love and Black Privacy: Watching John Singleton with James BaldwinDaniel DufournaudPart 4. Singleton and History7. The Shadow of the Past: Hauntology, Melancholia, and Rosewood as Reparative NarrativeEd Cameron and Linda Belau8. “The Ghetto Game of Thrones”: Snowfall, Auteur Theory, and Historiographic TelevisionDaniel Dufournaud