Archival Spaces 287: Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans Uploaded 21 January 2022 Several years ago in a piece on “Preserving Race Films” (2016, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack) I noted that much African-American film history from the 1930s and 40s had only survived in 16mm copies, which were often treated by archivesContinue reading “287: Susan Delson on Soundies”
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283: Gotto’s Passing and Posing
Archival Spaces 283 Lisa Gotto: Passing and Posing Between Black and White Uploaded 26 November 2021 Lisa Gotto, a professor of film theory at the University of Vienna, originally published her book, Passing and Posing. Between Black and White. Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema (Bielefeld: transcript verlag, 2021) in German in 2006 as Traum und Trauma inContinue reading “283: Gotto’s Passing and Posing”
279: L.A. Rebellion 10 Tears On
Archival Spaces 279 L.A. Rebellion Project – 10 Years On Uploaded 1 October 2021 Tomorrow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ newly opened Academy Museum begins a seventeen-film series, “Imperfect Journey: Haile Gerima and His Comrades” (2 October – 14 November) which is being presented in conjunction with Gerima becoming the Museum’s firstContinue reading “279: L.A. Rebellion 10 Tears On”
274: Restoring Summer of Soul
Archival Spaces 274 Restoring Summer of Soul (… or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Uploaded 23 July 2021 The Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969 has been called “the Black Woodstock.” Held over a period of six Sundays in what is now called Marcus Garvey Park at 125th Street in Harlem, the FestivalContinue reading “274: Restoring Summer of Soul”
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