Month: February 2017

Like several of my fellow classmates, I visited the Hammer Museum and observed an instillation by the artist Simon Denny.

This chapter Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Pre-Classical Cinema deals with the issues in portraying blackness in film during

Please forgive the technical glitches….but due to my internet circumstances and general ludite-ness, my blog post is available on my

I’d like to begin this post by stating a fact: Jurassic Park is the greatest movie of all time.  

Cinema and the God-Given Right to Play During the great migration of African Americans into major southern cities, Black people

This chapter is dedicated to the black actress Evelyn Preer, who appeared in many of Micheaux’s silent films. Her starring

The Ambitions of William Foster by Allyson Field reflects on the career of a Chicago-based African-American filmmaking entrepreneur who was always

Chapter 1 “To misrepresent a Helpless Race” by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart discusses the negative image of blacks portrayed in the

Chapter 8 of the book Oscar Micheaux and his Circle is titled “To Redream the Dream of White Playwrights: Reappropriation and

In this chapter, To “Encourage and Uplift”: Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema, the author, Allyson Fields, traces filmmaking practices of several Black filmmaking