“Only the colored people themselves can determine their political, social and economic future.”

William Monroe Trotter

Prof. EA Kiss

This course surveys a hidden canon of African American film while also uncovers the roots of representational injustice in Hollywood and the secret, but cardinal role Woodrow Wilson played in the production and distribution of Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” that led to the rebirth of the KKK. Wilson’s policy of segregation was adapted by Hollywood as a self-censoring industry regulation of representation. Black people could only appear on screen as subservient and marginal characters, never as equals, partners or leaders. This industry code, Wilson’s legacy, has become second nature to Hollywood.

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2023 FALL STUDIO MEETINGS

Afro-American Cinema from Zora Neal Hurston to Jordan Peele

Classified-X

09/06

No Justice, No Cinematic Canon

freedomroad

09/13

Epics of White Terror

BirtOfANation

09/20

Is Griffith the Father of Cinema?

panther

09/27

Neo-realism

three-day-passed

10/04

New Wave

Killer-of-Sheep

10/11

Modernism

Chamelon-Street

10/25

Post-modernism and Beyond

black-panther

11/01

Afrofuturism

luce

11/08

The Think-Piece Film

watermelon-man

11/15

The Impostor Film

farewellamor

11/29

The Coming of Age Film

Daughters-of-the-Dust

12/06

The Great Epic

STUDENT PROJECTS

Technical guidance for student projects

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