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James Baldwin As a Writer of Short Fiction: an Evaluation
JAMES BALDWIN AS A WRITER OF SHORT FICTION: AN EVALUATION dayton G. Holloway A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY December 1975 618208 ii Abstract Well known as a brilliant essayist and gifted novelist, James Baldwin has received little critical attention as short story writer. This dissertation analyzes his short fiction, concentrating on character, theme and technique, with some attention to biographical parallels. The first three chapters establish a background for the analysis and criticism sections. Chapter 1 provides a biographi cal sketch and places each story in relation to Baldwin's novels, plays and essays. Chapter 2 summarizes the author's theory of fiction and presents his image of the creative writer. Chapter 3 surveys critical opinions to determine Baldwin's reputation as an artist. The survey concludes that the author is a superior essayist, but is uneven as a creator of imaginative literature. Critics, in general, have not judged Baldwin's fiction by his own aesthetic criteria. The next three chapters provide a close thematic analysis of Baldwin's short stories. Chapter 4 discusses "The Rockpile," "The Outing," "Roy's Wound," and "The Death of the Prophet," a Bi 1 dungsroman about the tension and ambivalence between a black minister-father and his sons. In contrast, Chapter 5 treats the theme of affection between white fathers and sons and their ambivalence toward social outcasts—the white homosexual and black demonstrator—in "The Man Child" and "Going to Meet the Man." Chapter 6 explores the theme of escape from the black community and the conseauences of estrangement and identity crises in "Previous Condition," "Sonny's Blues," "Come Out the Wilderness" and "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon." The last chapter attempts to apply Baldwin's aesthetic principles to his short fiction. -
I Am Not Your Negro
Magnolia Pictures and Amazon Studios Velvet Film, Inc., Velvet Film, Artémis Productions, Close Up Films In coproduction with ARTE France, Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RTBF (Télévision belge), Shelter Prod With the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), Cinereach, PROCIREP – Société des Producteurs, ANGOA, Taxshelter.be, ING, Tax Shelter Incentive of the Federal Government of Belgium, Cinéforom, Loterie Romande Presents I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO A film by Raoul Peck From the writings of James Baldwin Cast: Samuel L. Jackson 93 minutes Winner Best Documentary – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Winner Best Writing - IDA Creative Recognition Award Four Festival Audience Awards – Toronto, Hamptons, Philadelphia, Chicago Two IDA Documentary Awards Nominations – Including Best Feature Five Cinema Eye Honors Award Nominations – Including Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Direction Best Documentary Nomination – Film Independent Spirit Awards Best Documentary Nomination – Gotham Awards Distributor Contact: Press Contact NY/Nat’l: Press Contact LA/Nat’l: Arianne Ayers Ryan Werner Rene Ridinger George Nicholis Emilie Spiegel Shelby Kimlick Magnolia Pictures Cinetic Media MPRM Communications (212) 924-6701 phone [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 49 west 27th street 7th floor new york, ny 10001 tel 212 924 6701 fax 212 924 6742 www.magpictures.com SYNOPSIS In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. -
Contemporary World Cinema Brian Owens, Artistic Diretor – Nashville Film Festival
Contemporary World Cinema Brian Owens, Artistic Diretor – Nashville Film Festival OLLI Winter 2015 Term Tuesday, January 13 Viewing Guide – The Cinema of Europe These suggested films are some that will or may come up for discussion during the first course. If you go to Netflix, you can use hyperlinks to find further suggestions. The year listed is the year of theatrical release in the US. Some films (Ida for instance) may have had festival premieres in the year prior. VOD is “Video On Demand.” Note: It is not necessary to see any or all of the films, by any means. These simply serve as a guide for the discussion. You can also use IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database) to search for other works by these filmmakers. You can also keep this list for future viewing after the session, if that is what you prefer. Most of the films are Rated R – largely for language and brief nudity or sexual content. I’ve noted in bold the films that contain scenes that could be too extreme for some viewers. In the “Additional works” lines, those titles are noted by an asterisk. Force Majeure Director: Ruben Östlund. 2014. Sweden. 118 minutes. Rated R. A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch. In the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core. Currently playing at the Belcourt. Also Available on VOD through most services and on Amazon Instant. Ida Director: Pawel Pawlikowski. 2014. Poland. 82 minutes. Rated PG-13. A young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. -
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Title Type of Item Description/Author Name 4 Little Girls Civil Rights, Documentary, Race 7 Days in September VHS 9/11, Islam, USA A Day Without A Mexican DVD Immigration, Latinos, Fantasy A Soldier's Story DVD African-American,Army, Louisiana Achieving Multiculturalism in Our Organizations VHS Diversity, Documentary, Life After Stonewall DVD Gay Rights, History, Documentary Aimee and Jaguar DVD Sexuality, History, Gender Amandla DVD South Africa, Revolution, Documentary Amandla DVD South Africa, Revolution, Documentary Amistad DVD Slavery, Justice, Race Amores Perros DVD Mexico, Life, Foreign Amour de Femme DVD Sexuality, Gender, French Angels in America DVD AIDS, Religion, New York City Babel DVD International, Race, Violence Bad Boys I DVD Mystery, Action, African-American Bad Boys II DVD Mystery, Action, African-American Balseros DVD Documentary, Cuba, Communism Basquiat DVD Art, African-American, Autobiography Beat Street DVD Hip-Hop, New York City, Breakdance Beautiful Thing DVD Sexuality, Relationships, Teens Bedrooms and Hallways DVD Gender, Sexuality, Relationships Before Stonewall DVD Gay Rights, History, Documentary Belonging VHS Berkeley in the Sixties VHS College, Activism, Government Better Than Chocolate DVD Sexuality, Family, Life Beyond the Dream VHS Civil Rights, Race, History Black. White. DVD Race, Society, Family Blood Diamond DVD Sierra Lione, War, Race Born Into Brothels DVD Calcutta, Gender, Documentary Boys Don't Cry DVD Gender, Sexuality, Teens Brokeback Mountain DVD Sexuality, USA, Gender Brother John DVD Fantasy, -
Liquid Blackness Reflects on the Expansive Possibilities of the L.A
Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Faculty Publications Department of Communication 2015 Encountering the Rebellion: Liquid Blackness Reflects on the Expansive Possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion Films Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_facpub Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Alessandra Raengo. “Encountering the Rebellion: liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films,” in L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, ed. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan- Christopher Horak, Jacqueline Stewart, pp. 291-318. University of California Press, 2015. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Communication at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. L.A. Rebellion Creating a New Black Cinema E D IT E D BY Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart 15 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www .ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema/edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. -
Haile Gerima: an African Film Master. by Ntongela Masilela I Would Like to Begin by Expressing My Gratitude in Being Invited By
Untitled Document Haile Gerima: An African Film Master. by Ntongela Masilela I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude in being invited by the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (IDBS) here at the Claremont Colleges, or better still, the Africana Studies, to introduce Haile Gerima in today's proceedings. Haile Gerima is previleging us here at the Claremont Colleges by showing us tonight his newest film, Adwa: An African Victory (1999), which will be having an official U. S. Premier opening next week-end in Washington, D. C. Please note I say openly and publicly in an open forum Haile Gerima without any formalities of any kind. Even though Haile Gerima is a very brilliant thinker and has been an outstanding Professor of Film Studies at Howard University for the last twenty-five years or so, I would like to banish formal etiquettes when referring to him tonight. We do not say Professor Karl Marx or Dr. Frantz Fanon or Mr. Richard Wright or Ms. Toni Morrison when we refer to great figures in intellectual and cultural history. We just say Karl Marx, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon in order to get immediately into the heart of the matter or into the nitty-gritty concerning their singular and unique contribution to human thought or to measure their civilizational activity. Their greatness does not require formal appendages for its understanding or appreciation or designation. This is likewise the same concerning Haile Gerima whom I take to be a great artist, a monumental figure, and simply a colossus. The second reason for dispensing with formalities tonight is that I have known Haile Gerima for approximately thirty years: from our students days at UCLA in the very early 1970s to our present brotherly friendship today. -
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by St Andrews Research Repository The Revolution Has Been Televised Fact, Fiction, and Spectacle in the 1970s and 1980s Kate Cowcher he twentieth century is replete with examples of fijilm intersecting with the processes of political revolution. From Sergei Eisenstein’s epic restaging of the October revolution as an unequivocally popular upsurge to what T Timothy Garton Ash called the real-time “telerevolutions” (1990, 90) that accompanied the collapse of communism, screens, large and small, have played critical roles in efffecting, amplifying, and mythologizing radical ruptures in the status quo. The Ethiopian revolution of 1974 is rarely remembered for anything more than ushering in a violent Marxist military dictatorship, led by Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Derg (“committee”) on whose hands the blood of many thousands of Ethiopians remains. Without forgetting the great darkness that clouds the years between 1974 and 1991, it is, nonetheless, important to examine the revolution as more than simply a tale of oppression and of late Cold War maneuvering. It is the contention of this chapter, and of my broader research into Ethiopian artistic practice in the 1970s and 1980s, that the creation, dissemination, and provocation of images was at the heart of the break with the imperial tradition and that moving images, in particular, both dealt a seminal blow to the waning authority of Emperor Haile Selassie and shaped the subsequent course of the revolution. | 45 46 | Kate Cowcher Those familiar with the events in Addis Ababa in 1974 will know that the name Jonathan Dimbleby is synonymous with the emperor’s fall. -
“He Gave Me the Words”: an Interview with Raoul Peck
INTERVIEW “He Gave Me the Words”: An Interview with Raoul Peck Leah Mirakhor Yale University Abstract I Am Not Your Negro (2016) takes its direction from the notes for a book enti- tled “Remember this House” that James Baldwin left unfinished, a book about his three friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.— their murders, and their intertwining legacies. The film examines the prophetic shadow Baldwin’s work casts on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American politics and culture. Peck compiles archival material from Baldwin’s interviews on The Dick Cavett Show, his 1965 Cambridge lecture, and a series of banal images indexing the American dream. Juxtaposed against this mythology is footage of Dorothy Counts walking to school, the assassination of black leaders and activists, KKK rallies, and the different formations of the contemporary carceral state. Our conversation examines Peck’s role as a filmmaker and his relationship with the Baldwin estate. Additionally, we discussed a series of aesthetic choices he fought to include in the film’s final cut, directing Samuel L. Jackson as the voice for the film, the similarities and shifts he wanted to document in American culture since the 1960s, and some of the criticism he has received for not emphasizing more Baldwin’s sexuality. Keywords: James Baldwin, Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, race, film, America, The Devil Finds Work, “Remember this House,” violence, sexuality, Patrice Lumumba, film I Am Not Your Negro (2016) is a work that has been a lifetime in the making for Raoul Peck. Before he met James Baldwin’s younger sister, Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, a decade ago at her home in Washington D.C. -
Defending Black Imagination the “LA Rebellion”
1 MUSEUM DIGITAL ARCHIVE NOW DIG THIS! ART & BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960–1980 Defending Black Imagination The “L.A. Rebellion” School of Black Filmmakers JACQUELINE STEWART Artists always think we’re in danger. —Varnette Honeywood in Varnette’s World: A Study of a Young Artist (dir. Carroll Parrott Blue, 1980) It is not called “show art,” we are frequently reminded, but “show business.” Artists everywhere have struggled with the complex relations that obtain between creative expression, material necessity, and the market. But for artists working in the entertainment capital of the world, the stakes would seem to be especially high either to reject the aesthetic and business models exemplified by Hollywood or to assimilate them. For Los Angeles–based artists who are black, furthermore, the complex legacy of black performance (so aggressively confined to modes aimed at pleasing white audiences) complicates efforts to be taken seriously as creative agents and to develop affirming creative practices that are financially sustainable, let alone autonomous. This essay describes some of the ways in which a group of emerging black artists in Los Angeles in the 1970s navigated the show/art/business divides while working in Hollywood’s own medium of film. These filmmakers generated a body of work that reflects and reflects upon the ongoing difficulties of maintaining black creative voices in L.A.’s particular political and industrial climates. In developing their own cinematic voices in an academic environment outside of the dominant film industry, they posited that black creativity is not frivolous or secondary to political change but fundamental to any attempt to restore and preserve the well- being of black individuals and communities. -
Where Is the Revolution: an Interview with Abbas Kiarostami
Where is the Revolution: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/24850/where-is-the-revol... From Tunis to Belgium with Ghalia Benali Interviewed by Huda Asfour Where is the Revolution: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami Like Share 1K people like this. Sign Up to see what your friends like. Tweet by Shiva Rahbaran Sep 07 2016 Listen Abbas Kiarostami agreed to give an interview only reluctantly. I reminded him insistently that the absence of a filmmaker with whom film is supposed to end (see below), would be catastrophic for a project whose subject is post-revolutionary New Iranian Cinema. Eventually, he agreed. Sitting across from me, he grins ironically. Kiarostami says that ever since Alberto Elena decided to quote Jean-Luc Godard, “Film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami,” on the cover of his monograph The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami,[1] that remark is mentioned every time someone says or publishes anything about Kiarostami. He is at pains to point out that Godard made this statement only in relation to Life, and Nothing More (1992), also known as And Life Goes On, the second part of [Abbas Kiarostami. Image by Mohammad Hassanzadeh via Kiarostami’s Earthquake Trilogy, which is also known as the Koker Trilogy Wikipedia] (the other two parts being Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987) and Through the Olive Trees (1994)). However, Kiarostami explains, the statements that Godard has made about him in the last ten or fifteen years clearly show that Godard no longer believes that film ends with Kiarostami. -
Dina Iordanova. 'Treading in Little Steps: My Asian
Dina Iordanova. ‘Treading in Little Steps: My Asian Cinema Jigsaw.’ In Nick Deocampo (Ed.), Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in Asia-Pacific (pp. --), Singapore: SEAPAVAA and Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. TREADING IN LITTLE STEPS: MY ASIAN CINEMA JIGSAW Dina IORDANOVA ‘. all these little steps that took me away from my usual life and that led me on to the thread of another one’ Tiziano Terzani When I hit my mid-fifties, I realised that the discovery of Asia, which took place in equal degrees through travel and through viewing films, since my first visit in 1994, had been a defining moment in my life. It could easily not have happened and yet it did. And it is growing in importance as I journey further through the years. Unlike most of those who specialise in the cinema of Asia, I come from Eastern Europe and not from Asia. My background is in Western culture and not in Asian culture or film; I wrote a doctoral thesis on German Romanticism and later on worked on the cinema of Europe. I have never had the chance to live and work in Asia for a prolonged period of time, as many of my academic friends have; my longest stays in any Asian contexts were less than three months in duration. And, similar to my comings and goings to Asian destinations, my journey to the cinema of Asia feels like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. It consists of many little, seemingly unrelated steps, that do come together and start making sense, and form an emerging picture, only over time. -
History Department Video Catalog
1 HISTORY DEPARTMENT VIDEO CATALOG A ADVENTURES OF THE VIKINGS / 1996, 83 Minutes, 1 Videocassette. Covers the 300 year period commonly called the "Viking Era." Discusses the journeys of the Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes. Special attention given to the Viking discovery of North America. AFRICA Course: 1111, 1112, 1140, 4750, 4760, 4770, 4774 Basil Davidson series, 8 parts; 60 min. each) shelved by series; 2 parts per video; Filmed on various locations all over Africa, showing life as it is today, plus archival film and dramatized reconstruction of earlier times. Produced in England, in association with Nigerian Television. "Basil Davidson is one of the major world authorities on African history, and this series is very well done. In some places he is presenting personal interpretations for which there is not as yet a scholarly consensus. He is generally sympathetic to African reinterpretations of world history." ‐‐ Reid Part 1: "Different but Equal." Davidson goes back to Africa's origins to show that, far from having no great art or technology, Africa gave rise to some of the world's greatest early civilizations. Part 2: "Mastering a Continent." Looking closely at three different communities, this program examines the way African peoples carve out an existence in an often hostile environment. Two very different farming villages show how, in Africa, spiritual development goes hand in hand with technological advance. Part 3: "Caravans of Gold." Davidson traces the routes of the medieval gold trade, which reached from Africa to India and China in the east and westward to the city‐states of Italy. African rulers grew rich and powerful ‐ the King of Ghana was described by an Arab traveler in 951 as the wealthiest of all kings on earth.