Tuesday, April 6th
7:00 pmIU Cinema Short Films Program
Everyday Abstraction: A Film Blackness CollectionFree,
James O. Naremore Lecture – Dr. Michael Gillespie, CCNY
Title of talk: “Trapped in a Legend: Film, Media, and the Art of Blackness”
Graduate Student Brown Bag Workshop with Dr. Gillespie
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Michael Boyce 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.