Dash, Julie - Catalyst #2 (1987)

Julie Dash (Contributor).Pearl Cleage (Editor). Catalyst #2. Catalyst, 1987.Staple-bound softcover. 100 pages including covers. Very Good.Light edgewear and soiling to covers. Small split to bottom spine of wrappers. Cover photography of David Murray by Andy Freeburg. Atlanta-based literary and culture magazine with an emphasis on African-American expression. An early (quite likely the first) appearance of Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust which had a theatrical release in 1991.  Interview with Spike Lee.  Spike Lee and the Afro-American Aesthetic by Donald P. Stone.  "Whose P___y Is This?" A Feminist Comment by Bell Hooks: An essay on Lee's film "She's Gotta Have it". Selling it to the Movies by Vern E. Smith. "Daughters of the Dust": About the Script ( + screenplay) by Julie Dash.Celeste Miller.  Zaron Burnett.Robbie McCauley. Joe Grimsley. Bill Bagwell. Lamar Alford.  Jalaine Halsall. Rebecca Ranson. Mari Evans. Nola Perez. Hya Laurel. Jennifer Griffith. Martha Parker. Beverl