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Black cinema

‘A Gateway to Self-Discovery’: An Interview with Elegance Bratton

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Keelyn Bradley #TonguesUntied30, Black cinema, Black film, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. Keelyn Bradley:

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Online Forum: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied

July 23, 2019July 28, 2019 AAIHS Editors #TonguesUntied30, art, Black cinema, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, race, sexuality

July 29–August 2, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum to commemorate

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Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30

March 23, 2018March 26, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black cinema, Black film, blackness, education, Resistance, white supremacy

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the

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Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness

March 2, 2018March 3, 2018 Justin Gomer Black cinema, Black film, blackness, racism, white supremacy

“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if

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The Politics of Black Cinematic Representation

September 16, 2017September 20, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Black cinema, black internationalism

A recent article on Detroit described the film as “the most irresponsible and dangerous movie of the year.” The authors highlight Kathryn Bigelow’s directing

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