I have written in passing about the metaphorical importance of trains
in Spike Lee's CLOCKERS (1995) in a paper, "Black on White: Film Noir
and the Epistemology of Race in Recent African American Cinema,"
published in JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY 31 (2000), 82-116.
Very briefly, trains operate symbols of freedom for African Americans
in this film. Manthia Diawara earlier made this point about Chester
Himes' novel A RAGE IN HARLEM in his essay "Noirs by Noirs" in
Copjec's SHADES OF NOIR anthology (Verso, 1993).
Dan
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Dan Flory
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