Trapped in a Legend: Film, Media and the Art of Blackness
Michael Boyce Gillespie, an associate professor of film at the City College of New York, will deliver the James O. Naremore Lecture.
Gillespie is the author of “Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film” (Duke University Press, 2016); co-editor of “Black One Shot,” an art criticism series in ASAP/J; and editor of “Crisis Harmonies,” a music criticism series in “ASAP/J.” His research and writing focuses on Black visual and expressive culture, film theory, visual historiography, popular music and contemporary art. His recent work has appeared in Black Light: A Retrospective of International Black Cinema, Flash Art, Unwatchable, Ends of Cinema, ASAP/J and Film Quarterly.
Gillespie will screen a selection of short films on April 6 to accompany his lecture.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program.
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