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Surrealist Film and Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You
The purpose of this presentation was to discuss the characteristics and artistic and thematic impacts of surrealist film elements, especially within...
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Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
Excerpted from chapter 5 of Race by Martin Orkin and Alexa Alice Joubin. New Critical idiom Sereis. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 193-227. Full text...
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Complicating the Limits of the Viewer's Gaze in Film
We began our Wednesday class on Feb 6, with a quick inventory of the room: everyone read one sentence or short passage from the readings that they...
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Coming to America
Opening our discussion of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America (1988) and Professor Gates's first chapter in Double Negative on February 13, Professor...
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Quentin Tarantino’s Spaghetti Western/Blaxploitation flick Django Unchained (2012) is among the most critically acclaimed films he has directed. The...
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SANTA ANITA HILLS AUTHOR MIGDALIA TORRES
Oh, Santa Anita Hills where the morning's mountain air flows with a constant stream. The breeze would awaken anyone in its path. The shutters of the...
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Review of Mapping Movies
Communications and Media scholar Jeffrey Klenotic’s Mapping Movies provides a pioneering model for digitally marking, quantifying, and...
