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Writer, director Charles Burnett’s fourteen minute short The Horse (1973) is a visually romantic and eloquent film. It has been described as a coming-of-age tale though it feels more like a peek into the collision of two worlds.
Defining a Black Aesthetic in Black Art, Black Artists
“We were scarred in so many ways.” —Julie Dash, The Diary of an African Nun Q&A (11/19/2011)
During the L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Symposium, panelist Ed Guerrero, professor of film and African American studies at New York University, discussed Black film then and now. He opened by addressing the controversial comparison of the films from the L.A. Rebellion to those of the Blaxploitation era.
The L.A. Rebellion symposium opened Saturday morning with a welcome and introduction by Allyson Nadia Field and Jacqueline Stewart, who contextualized the symposium in relation to the history of the L.A. Rebellion and the current UCLA initiative. Dr.
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