Black Rhythm Happening: Film Blackness and Contemporary Cinema
Black Rhythm Happening: Film Blackness and Contemporary Cinema
A Talk by Michael B. Gillespie (PhD 2007)
Tuesday, March 20, at 6:30 pm
Michelson Theater
721 Broadway, 6th floor
The talk will consider the idea of black film in the terms of film blackness with attention to death and film form. With a focus on a cluster of short films, the talk poses new critical prerogatives for the idea of black film in our contemporary moment.
Michael B. Gillespie is an Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York. His research and writing focuses on film theory, black visual and expressive culture, popular music, and contemporary art. He is the author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke University Press, 2016).
Free and open to the public.
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