9780813923697 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 15, 2005, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of such Black women writers and filmmakers as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Julie Dash, and Euzhan Palcy, Judylyn Ryan proposes in this challenging new study that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the role and responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work.

9780813923703 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 16, 2005, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of such Black women writers and filmmakers as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Julie Dash, and Euzhan Palcy, Judylyn Ryan proposes in this challenging new study that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the role and responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work.

9780415920414 | Routledge, June 1, 1998, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: First published in 1998.

9780415920421 | Routledge, June 1, 1998, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: First published in 1998.

9780809321193 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood’s constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking.

9780809321209 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $25.00