Andre Seewood
PhD Candidate, Associate Instructor
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Research and Creative Interests
- narrative theory
- race in media
- film and music production
- screenwriting
- cognitive dissonance theory
- French New Wave Cinema
- New German Cinema
- L.A. Rebellion Cinema
- Italian Neo-Realism
- Robert Bresson
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Foucault
- Nietzsche
- Althusser...
- Cedric J. Robinson
- Albert Camus
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Saussure
- Lacan
- Henri Bergson
- Russian Formalists
- Structuralism
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- The Cocteau Twins
- Roman Polanski
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Agnes Varda
- Julie Dash
- Ava DuVerney
- Luis Bunuel
- Rene Magritte
- Caravaggio
- James Baldwin
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Child in Film
- Transnational Cinema
- Funk and Jazz Music
- Film Scores (Herrmann, Morricone, Rota, Goldsmith, Feilding)
- Prince
- Black Film
Biography
André Seewood is a multiple award winning independent filmmaker, writer and musician. He is a distinguished recipient of the Indiana University President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship 2022/23 at Indiana University- Bloomington and the Dennis Turner Memorial Film Studies Scholarship from Wayne State University in 2008. He is the author of SCREENWRITING INTO FILM: Forgotten Methods & New Possibilities (2006), SLAVE CINEMA: The Crisis of the African-American in Film 2nd Edition (2011) and (DISMANTLING) The Greatest Lie Ever Told to the Black Filmmaker: Collected Essays on Film (2015). He is also a major contributor to the Indiewire.com/Shadow & Act blog and his articles have sparked an international conversation about the marginalization of Black filmmakers in the global marketplace. His award winning films are streaming on-line via Vimeo.com. His music under the name, DRAYALI is available on all music streaming platforms. He has a Master’s Degree in French and a B.A. in Film Studies. He is currently pursuing his PhD. in Media Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington.