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Cornell Keynotes
The Evolution of Black Cinema

Cornell Keynotes

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 40:12


Black actors, writers and directors have made profound contributions to television and film, entertaining and educating audiences through powerful stories and performances that reflect the human experience.In this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast, brought to you by eCornell, Samantha Sheppard, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Performing and Media Arts in Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences, explores the rich history and future of Black artists in cinema with host Nicholas Phillips.Tune in to learn:What films sparked the rise of Black actorsHow the depiction of Black life in film has changed throughout the yearsWhat impact Black writers and directors have had on film and televisionHow minority actors are being cast now as compared to a century agoThe future of diversity and inclusion in cinemaDid you enjoy this episode? Watch the full Keynote and explore more than 250 eCornell certificate programs that can advance your skills for the next scene of your career, including Brand Storytelling, Content Writing and Strategic Storytelling. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

MUBI Podcast
DO THE RIGHT THING — Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter find color in the dark

MUBI Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2024 33:42


Spike Lee's masterwork DO THE RIGHT THING is an incendiary look at racial tension, an empathetic portrait of a community...and one of the flyest-ever distillations of street style as the '80s gave way to the '90s.Host Rico Gagliano learns how double Oscar-winner Ruth E. Carter (BLACK PANTHER) used bright color, afro-consciousness, and a whole lot of Nike sneakers to build a look as complex and political as the story. Guests include Carter, Spike Lee's longtime cinematographer Ernest Dickerson...and a flashback with Spike himself.Season 5, titled Tailor Made, dives deep into the worlds of film and fashion. Each episode tackles a landmark movie that captured a major fashion look of an era, and then decodes what that look meant—to the culture that spawned it, the people who wore it, and the audiences who watched it on screen.Andrea Arnold's COW is now streaming exclusively on MUBI in many countries. To watch it and some of the other films we've covered on the podcast, check out the collection Featured on the MUBI Podcast. Availability of films varies depending on your country.Links to the books mentioned in this episode: FREE STYLIN': HOW HIP HOP CHANGED THE FASHION INDUSTRY by Elena Romaro, SPIKE LEE'S DO THE RIGHT THING edited by Mark A. Reid, SPIKE LEE by Todd McGowan, and SPIKE LEE: DO THE RIGHT THING by Spike Lee and Jason Matloff.MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI makes, acquires, curates, and champions extraordinary films, connecting them to audiences all over the world. A place to discover ambitious new films and singular voices, from iconic directors to emerging auteurs. Each carefully chosen by MUBI's curators.

One Heat Minute
MIAMI NICE: THE SCARFACE OF IT ALL w/ Dr. Todd Boyd

One Heat Minute

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 61:20


Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for Study of Race and Popular Culture at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts - Dr Todd Boyd - to talk through the entanglement of SCARFACE and the MIAMI VICE TV Series, the way fans embraced and anointed them into the cultural canon, and so much more.Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive weekly podcast + access to the OHM discord here.ABOUT DR TODD BOYD Ph. DKatherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for Study of Race and Popular Culture at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Research areas: African American Cinema, New Hollywood, Hip Hop Culture, Cultural Politics, Sports MediaTWITTER: @DrToddBoydONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONSWEBSITE: ONEHEATMINUTE.COMPATREON:ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS PATREONTWITTER: @ONEBLAKEMINUTE & @KATIEWALSHSTX & @OHMPODSSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Marc Steiner Show
The anti-LGBTQ backlash can't crush 50 years of Pride

The Marc Steiner Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 48:31


Over 800 anti-LGBTQ bills have either been passed or are on the docket in 27 states, according to the organization Human Rights Campaign. Much of this legislation targets transgender people in particular, focusing on gender-affirming medical care, public education, and the presence of gender nonconforming people in public space. As a result, schools, healthcare, and public space have been dragged into the frontlines of a new culture war that ultimately takes aim at democracy itself. The Marc Steiner Show hosts a special intergenerational Pride Month panel among queer activists to reflect on the current moment's resonance with past threats to the LGBTQ community, and what lessons such history can offer in the fight ahead.Lexi McMenamin is the News & Politics Editor at Teen Vogue. They are also a freelance writer covering politics, identity, activist movements, and pop culture.Allen Young is a journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberation News Service in the late 1960s. As a member of the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba, he spoke out against the treatment of gays in the Cuban Revolution at the time. Allen became part of the Gay Liberation Front after the Stonewall Rebellion, and continues his activism to this day.Kalima Young is an Assistant Professor in the Towson University Department of Electronic Media and Film where she teaches Principles of Film and Media Production and African American Cinema. She is an activist with FORCE: Upsetting Rape Cultureworking to build The Monument Quilt project. Kalima is also a member of the Rooted Collective, a Black LGBTQ healing project.Studio / Post-Production: David HebdenHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-mssSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-st Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

The Real News Podcast
LGBTQ history and the current backlash | The Marc Steiner Show

The Real News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 48:32


Over 800 anti-LGBTQ bills have either been passed or are on the docket in 27 states, according to the organization Human Rights Campaign. Much of this legislation targets transgender people in particular, focusing on gender-affirming medical care, public education, and the presence of gender nonconforming people in public space. As a result, schools, healthcare, and public space have been dragged into the frontlines of a new culture war that ultimately takes aim at democracy itself. The Marc Steiner Show hosts a special intergenerational Pride Month panel among queer activists to reflect on the current moment's resonance with past threats to the LGBTQ community, and what lessons such history can offer in the fight ahead.Lexi McMenamin is the News & Politics Editor at Teen Vogue. They are also a freelance writer covering politics, identity, activist movements, and pop culture.Allen Young is a journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberation News Service in the late 1960s. As a member of the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba, he spoke out against the treatment of gays in the Cuban Revolution at the time. Allen became part of the Gay Liberation Front after the Stonewall Rebellion, and continues his activism to this day.Kalima Young is an Assistant Professor in the Towson University Department of Electronic Media and Film where she teaches Principles of Film and Media Production and African American Cinema. She is an activist with FORCE: Upsetting Rape Cultureworking to build The Monument Quilt project. Kalima is also a member of the Rooted Collective, a Black LGBTQ healing project.Studio / Post-Production: David HebdenHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-mssSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-st Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Profiles With Maggie LePique
Film historian And Author Donald Bogle On "Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers" And More!

Profiles With Maggie LePique

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later May 10, 2023 41:09


Maggie speaks extensively with Film historian, educator and author Donald Bogle is one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in the movies.  With a series of provocative, culturally significant books, Bogle almost single-handedly pioneered the study, appreciation, and value of the work and achievements--as well as the heroic struggles--of Black artists working in films.    With his very first book, Donald Bogle won the Theatre Library Association Award for Film. That book, now in its 5th expanded, updated edition, it is considered a classic study of Black movie images in America and is used in courses at colleges and universities around the country.   Mr. Bogle has also appeared as a commentator on television, including Henry Louis Gates's Peabody award-winning PBS series The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. He also has a long association with Turner Classic Movies and, in his recent book "Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers" (which is a Turner Classic Movies film book) he has continued his pioneering examination of African American film history. Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to our late host, Robert Osborne, with the Robert Osborne Award, presented annually at the TCM Classic Film Festival to an individual whose work has helped preserve the cultural heritage of classic film for future generations. In 2023, TCM honors film historian, author, and professor Donald Bogle for his pioneering studies of African American cinema and his tireless efforts to elevate the achievements of Black performers and filmmakers. Source: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/donald-bogleSource: https://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/people/donald-bogleSource: https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/the-robert-osborne-award/Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Support the show

Women's Health, Wisdom, and. . . WINE!
#66 - Mediated Misogynoir | Dr. Kalima Young (Sangria)

Women's Health, Wisdom, and. . . WINE!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 72:09


The status of Black Women? Living with misogynoir as a pre-existing condition.To be considered innocent is to be viewed as vulnerable to harm and worthy of protection from harm. An innocent person's pain is recognized, acknowledged, and addressed. Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women's and Girls' Innocence in the Public Imagination interrogates contemporary media culture to illuminate the ways the intersections of anti-blackness and misogyny, i.e., misogynoir, converge to obscure public perceptions of Black women and girls as people with any claim to innocence. When pained images of Black female bodies appear on media devices, the socio-political responses are telling, not only in their lack of urgency, but also in their inability to be read empathetically. By examining viral videos, memes, and recent film and television, Kalima Young makes a striking case for the need to create a new Black feminist media studies framework broad enough to hold the complexity and agency of Black women and girls in a digital age invested in framing them as inherently adulterated and impure.About Dr. Young:Dr. Kalima Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Media and Film where she teaches Principles of Film and Media Production and African American Cinema. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her scholarship explores the impact of race and gender-based trauma on Black identity, media, and Black cultural production. A videographer and writer, Ms. Young has written, produced and directed two feature films Grace Haven (2006), Lessons Learned (2009) as well as several political campaign videos.A gender-rights activist, Dr. Young is on the leadership team for the FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture's Monument Quilt Project, a collection of stories of survivors of rape and sexual abuse. Collecting over 6,000 quilt squares from across the nation. She is also a member of Rooted, a Black LGBTQ healing collective. Additionally, Dr. Young is a frequent host on local radio where she provides media and cultural criticism.   Mediated Misogynoir: The Erasure of Black Women and Girls' Pain the Public Imagination is her latest literary work.Resources Mentioned:Mediated MisogynoirMisogynoir TransformedRace After TechnologyAlgorithms of OppressionMemes to Movements The Arab SpringAt the Dark End of the StreetConnect with Dr. Young:Email: kyoung@towson.eduThe podcast's hashtag is #nourishyourflourish. You can also find our practice on the following social media outlets:Facebook: The Eudaimonia CenterInstagram: theeudaimoniacenterTwitter: eu_daimonismFor more reproductive medicine and women's health information and other valuable resources, make sure to visit our website.

Filmmaking Conversations Podcast with Damien Swaby
Ep 130: African American Cinema with The Micheaux Mission

Filmmaking Conversations Podcast with Damien Swaby

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2021 71:21


Together, the Men of Micheaux hope to find the perfect wine to compliment Pam Grier's 'Coffy', the five movies since 1985 in which Samuel L. Jackson does not appear and someone who agrees with Len that The Last Dragon is a bad movie. “Media magic happened when the two men connected to create one podcast that reviews every Black film ever made.”— The Philadelphia Tribune“They're funny and friendly and inclusive, and if you haven't seen a lot of these films before, well all the better!”— Radio New ZealandThe Episodes https://www.micheauxmission.com/episodesLike to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor?Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. (Disney, Pixar, FX Networks, Netflix, American Horror Story). He teaches you how to create beautiful images using three lighting techniques he has mastered on film sets over his 30+ years in the film industry. Each technique uses basic, low-cost lighting equipment so that anyone can achieve beautiful visuals no matter your projects's budget.Learn film lighting from an ASC cinematographer. If you want to take your cinematography to the next level, this free training will get you there. These videos are available for a limited time, so sign up for instant access. CLICK HERE TO REGISTERhttps://www.ifhacademy.com/a/28632/aLFBXkpNIf you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: https://www.kweli.tv/programs/the-people-of-brixtonDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/filmmaker_damien_swaby/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorWebsite http://filmmakingconversations.com/If you enjoy listening to Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby, I would love a coffee. Podcasting is thirsty work https://ko-fi.com/damienswaby

Relatable VS Debatable
Hollywood Shuffle

Relatable VS Debatable

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 91:31


How well do you know your cinema noir? Join us and Khaotic Kulture Podcast as we discuss African American Cinema past, present and future. Be sure to follow @relatablevsdebatable and @Khaotickulturepod and let us know some of your favorite Black films! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/relatablevsdebateable/support

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LENS ME YOUR EARS
EP 102- #BlackLivesMatter - African-American Cinema

LENS ME YOUR EARS

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 56:50


Carsten & Stephen take a look at some recent African-American films available on a variety of platforms, starting with the new Spike Lee release Da 5 Bloods (on Netflix) and moving on to a diverse array of films from the past few years and beyond. Check out CKDU every Tuesday afternoon at 5pm AST for a new episode of the show! Follow us on twitter: @Lensmeyourears and like us on Facebook! Stephen's twitter:@NS_scooke Carsten's twitter: @FlawInTheIris https://www.patreon.com/lensmeyourears

Watching Silent Films
Body And Soul (1925)

Watching Silent Films

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2020 65:26


YiFeng & Lily talk about Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul (1925). Here are the films referenced on this podcast: Kino Lorber box set Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2015) Body & Soul (1925) Criterion version with new musical score composed by trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) The Kid (1921) Recorded September 27th, 2019

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Champagne Sharks
CS 168: Angels on the Hardwood feat. Mtume Gant (@SirCoreGant) (04/20/2019)

Champagne Sharks

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2019 87:59


Today we have on filmmaker and film professor Mtume Gant (http://twitter.com/SirCoreGant). This is the Harden flop we mentioned https://twitter.com/MustBeCharm/status/1119730396575539202. Some of the movies that were mentioned: Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.) Dutchman (Anthony Harvey, Amiri Baraka) The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon) The Landlord (Hal Ashby) Blue Collar(Paul Schrader) Scratch (Documentary) Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn) Oscar Micheaux movies on Netflix, under the title "Pioneers of African-American Cinema": https://www.netflix.com/title/80161851?s=i&trkid=13747225

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Afro Pop Remix
1971: What's Really Going On - Spcl. Gsts. Janice & Edward

Afro Pop Remix

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2018 94:56


Topics: The Black Church, Jessie Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Shaft, & Soul Train. (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1971 Overview Snapshots 1.    Richard Nixon still President 2.    Vietnam War still going: (year 16 of 19) 3.    Deaths: 2,357 of 58,318 total 4.    Congressional Black Caucus created 5.    Soledad Brothers (California) and Attica (New York) prison riots 6.    The Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation. 7.    Maya Angelou’s, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Nikki Giovanni all publish books 8.    Beverly Johnson is the first black woman to appear on the cover of a major fashion magazine (Glamour). 9.    QUESTION: Because schools are socializing and educational institutions, did busing “undercut” black identity and intellect or help us get along better in a diverse world and learn more? Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.: Civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician from Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. 10.    Breakout Year: The "Black Expo" in Chicago, attend by 800,000+, to encourage black business and he organizes People United to Save Humanity (P.U.S.H.) 11.    FYI: Graduate from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 12.    Started working for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 13.    Jackson participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches. 14.    Became known for commanding public attention since he first started with MLK. 15.    MLK was impressed by JJ’s drive and organizational abilities but was also concerned about his ambition and attention-seeking. 16.    1971 he grabs the MLK legacy and becomes the de facto face of the “Black Church”. 17.    QUESTION: I appreciate Jessie, but why don’t I trust him? The Black Church: Always in the Mix. (JJ  18.    The phrase "black church" refers to Protestant churches that minister to predominantly black congregations. 19.    Segregationist discouraged and often prevented blacks from worshiping with whites.  20.    This created culturally distinct communities and worship practices that incorporated African spiritual traditions. 21.    Gradually, slaves developed their own interpretations of the Scriptures. Finding inspiration in stories of oppression and deliverance like Moses vs. Pharaoh. 22.    Question: First image that comes to mind? 23.    Key event: Philadelphia, PA 1787 – Birth of the “Black Church”: Richard Allen founded the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). The first fully independent black denomination. 24.    The AME church put a high premium on education, tended to attract the middle class, and produce black leadership. 25.    After the Civil War, "Baptists" grew rapidly, due primarily to a more independent governing structure. 26.    Baptist churches are governed locally, by the congregation. 27.    Major Difference Between Methodist and Baptist: The Method of Baptism [Pentecostals require additional reading] 28.    Who: Methodists baptize infants. Baptists only baptizes those capable of understanding. 29.    How: Methodists baptize with immersion, sprinkling, and pouring. Baptists only with immersion. 30.    Question: Any special memories about you or someone else being baptized? The Civil Rights Period: The Baptist “Come Up” 31.    Black churches were the heart and soul: acting as information hubs and centers of solidarity, while also providing leadership, organizational manpower, and moral guidance during this period. 32.    Notable minister-activists: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Baptists (Atlanta, GA), Ralph David Abernathy - Baptist (Linden, AL), Bernard Lee - Baptist (Norfolk, VA), Fred Shuttlesworth - Baptist (Mount Meigs, AL), Wyatt Tee Walker - Baptists (Brockton, MA), C. T. Vivian - Baptist (Boonville, MO) *Obama awarded him The P.M.o.H. in 2013.  Practices 33.    Main features: African ritual, slave emotionalism, and speaking/story-telling eloquence.  34.    Services: devotional prayer, singing by the congregation and choir, and the minister's sermon. 35.    Many ministers use drama, poetry, and the "call and response" tradition to connect with and energize the congregation. Question: Have you ever visited a “white” church and felt the difference? Politics and social issues 36.    Tendency to focus more on social issues. (poverty, gang violence, drug use, prison ministries, racism, etc.) 37.    Generally, more socially conservative [i.e., same-sex marriage, LGBT issues, women's rights, etc.] Present Day: Quick facts (Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study) 38.    Roughly eight-in-ten (79%) Blacks self-identify as Christian.  39.    The share of African Americans who identify as religiously “unaffiliated” has increased in recent years, mirroring national trends. 40.    This shift may help explain the popularity of non-church led activism, such as Black Lives Matter, Contributions of the Black Church 41.    The church has housed and fed the poor, assisted with psychologically negative and destructive habits, helped others overcome social and economic oppression, provided leadership development, supported the black family structure, acted as a social network and liaison for businesses, educated youths and adults, mentored "at risk" youth, provided job development skills, offered scholarships, built recreation centers, provided prison aftercare and drug prevention programs, and many other things. 42.    Functioned as a primary repository for "Black Culture", housing much of our history and traditions. Conclusion: 43.    Historically, the Black Church has been a major agent for socioeconomic and religious empowerment since the post-slavery era. 44.    It has acted as a reliable ally and sanctuary to the black community. Question: Will the Black Church be as vital to the next generation? Economics 45.    Unemployment Rate = 5.8% / Minimum Wage = $1.60, up .15c ($64w, $3,200y, ~$19,800 in 2018) Music 46.    Top Singles for the entire year of 1971 (Source: http://billboardtop100of.com/1971-2/) (*) = Black Artists / (it took 40 songs to get 10 black artists) -1    Three Dog Night: Joy To The World -2    Rod Stewart: Maggie May / (Find A) Reason To Believe -3    Carole King: It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move -4    Osmonds: One Bad Apple -5    Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart -6    Raiders: Indian Reservation -7    Donny Osmond: Go Away Little Girl -8    John Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads -9(1)    Temptations: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) -10    Dawn: Knock Three Times -11    Janis Joplin: Me And Bobby McGee -12(2)    Al Green: Tired Of Being Alone -13(3)    Honey Cone: Want Ads -14(4)    Undisputed Truth: Smiling Faces Sometimes -15(5)    Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose: Treat Her Like A Lady -16    James Taylor: You’ve Got A Friend -17(6)    Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff -18    Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar -19    Lee Michaels: Do You Know What I Mean -20    Joan Baez: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down -21(7)    Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On -22    Paul and Linda McCartney: Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey -23(8)    Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine -24    Five Man Electrical Band: Signs -25    Tom Jones: She’s A Lady -26    Murray Head and The Trinidad Singers: Superstar -27(9)    Free Movement: I Found Someone Of My Own -28    Jerry Reed: Amos Moses -29    Grass Roots: Temptation Eyes -30    Carpenters: Superstar -31    George Harrison: My Sweet Lord / Isn’t It A Pity -32    Donny Osmond: Sweet And Innocent -33    Ocean: Put Your Hand In The Hand -34    Daddy Dewdrop: Chick-a-boom -35    Carpenters: For All We Know -36    Sammi Smith: Help Me Make It Through The Night -37    Carpenters: Rainy Days And Mondays -38    Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind -40(10)    Jackson 5: Never Can Say Goodbye 47.    Question: Best Single? Top Albums 48.    Jan - ...To Be Continued, Isaac Hayes 49.    Feb - Curtis, Curtis Mayfield 50.    Apr - Live in Cook County Jail, B.B. King 51.    May - Maybe Tomorrow, The Jackson 5 52.    Jun - Aretha Live at Fillmore West, Aretha Franklin 53.    Jul - What's Going On, Marvin Gaye 54.    Jul - Shaft    Soundtrack, Isaac Hayes 55.    Question: Best album? Key Artists 56.    Marvin Gaye: American singer, songwriter and record producer. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Rossand Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul". 57.    During the 1970s, he recorded the albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown (joint with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the reins of a production company. His later recordings influenced several contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo soul. Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he released the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit "Sexual Healing" and its parent album Midnight Love. 58.    Aretha Louise Franklin: American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career. 59.    In 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think". 60.    By the end of the 1960s decade she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".  61.    Franklin eventually became the most charted female artist in the history. 62.    Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Franklin has been honored throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which she became the first female performer to be inducted. She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Franklin is listed in at least two all-time lists on Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time; and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. African-American Cinema 63.    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario Van Peebles also appears in a small role, playing the title character as a young boy. It tells the picaresque story of a poor black man on his flight from the white authority. 64.    Van Peebles began to develop the film after being offered a three-picture contract for Columbia Pictures. No studio would finance the film, so Van Peebles funded the film himself, shooting it independently over a period of 19 days, performing all of his own stunts and appearing in several sex scenes, reportedly unsimulated. He received a $50,000 loan from Bill Cosby to complete the project. The film's fast-paced montages and jump-cuts were unique features in American cinema at the time. The picture was censored in some markets and received mixed critical reviews. However, it has left a lasting impression on African-American cinema. 65.    The musical score of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was performed by Earth, Wind & Fire. Van Peebles did not have any money for traditional advertising methods, so he released the soundtrack album prior to the film's release to generate publicity. Huey P. Newton celebrated and welcomed the film's revolutionary implications, and Sweetback became required viewing for members of the Black Panther Party. According to Variety, it demonstrated to Hollywood that films which portrayed "militant" blacks could be highly profitable, leading to the creation of the blaxploitation genre, although critic Roger Ebert did not consider this example of Van Peebles' work to be an exploitation film. 66.    Release date: April 23, 1971 / Budget: $150k (~920k today) / Gross: $4.1m (~25m today) 67.    Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation action-crime film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. The film revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford. The major themes present in Shaft are the Black Power movement, race, masculinity, and sexuality. It was filmed within the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically in Harlem, Greenwich Village, and Times Square. 68.    Shaft was one of the first blaxploitation films, and one of the most popular, which "marked a turning point for this type of film and spawned a number of sequels and knockoffs." The Shaft soundtrack album, recorded by Isaac Hayes, was also a success, winning a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture; and a second Grammy that he shared with Johnny Allen for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement; Grammy Award for Best Original Score; the "Theme from Shaft" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and has appeared on multiple Top 100 lists, including AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Widely considered a prime example of the blaxploitation genre. Shaft was selected in 2000 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." 69.    Release date: July 2, 1971 / Budget: 500k (~3m today) / Gross: $13m (~80m today) 70.    The film was one of only three profitable movies that year for MGM,  71.    It not only spawned several years of "blaxploitation" action films, it earned enough money to save then-struggling MGM from bankruptcy Television: 72.    Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971 to March 27, 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, dance/pop and hip-hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco and gospel artists also appeared. The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer. 73.    Some commentators have called Soul Train a "black American Bandstand," 74.    Cornelius acknowledged Bandstand as a model for his program, but he tended to bristle at the Bandstand comparisons. 75.    Cornelius, with help from Jesse Jackson, openly accused Dick Clark of trying to undermine TV's only Black-owned show, when Clark launched "Soul Unlimited". 76.    Cornelius was relatively conservative in his musical tastes and was admittedly not a fan of the emerging hip hop genre, believing that the genre did not reflect positively on African-American culture (one of his stated goals for the series). 77.    Rosie Perez testified in the 2010 VH1 documentary Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America that Cornelius also disliked seeing the show's dancers perform sexually suggestive "East Coast" dance moves. 78.     This disconnect (which was openly mocked in an In-Living Color sketch where Cornelius and the show were lampooned as extremely old and out of touch) eventually led to Cornelius's stepping down as host in the early 1990s and the show's losing its influence. Black Church Sources: https://thewitnessbcc.com/history-black-church/ https://aaregistry.org/story/the-black-church-a-brief-history/ http://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religion.aspx [2016] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Black_America#Baptists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Black_America http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/02/07/5-facts-about-the-religious-lives-of-african-americans/

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LENS ME YOUR EARS
EP 54- Black Panther & a look at African American Cinema

LENS ME YOUR EARS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2018 60:22


Carsten & Stephen discuss MARVEL's juggernaut film BLACK PANTHER, which leads into a discussion about the history of African American Cinema. LENS ME YOUR EARS is also on the radio. Check out CKDU every tuesday afternoon at 5pm AST for a new episode of the show!!!!!!!   HELP SUPPORT THE PODCAST BY VISITING OUR PATREON PAGE!!!! Follow us on twitter, Like us on Facebook:  Email us  Please rate & review us on itunes!!! If you do, we will give you a shout-out on a future episode!

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African American Cinema pt. 1

Ebony Contrarian

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2018 5:28


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February 24, 2018

Ebony Contrarian

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2018 10:13


African American Cinema pt. 2

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Ebony Contrarian
African American Cinema pt. 2

Ebony Contrarian

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2018 10:13


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Deep Focus on WNHH-LP
Episode 104: African American Cinema / The Post

Deep Focus on WNHH-LP

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2018 52:43


On the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven film critic and lecturer Steve Fortes to talk about the history of African American cinema.In the early 1990s, Steve taught two seminars at Yale University about the history of African American film and television. On today’s show we’ll talk with Steve about the films that he covered in those two seminars, what he saw as some of the prevailing themes and trends of in the first century of African American cinema, and about which movies and filmmakers he would include today if he were teaching the same course in 2018.On the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel for a review of THE POST, Steven Spielberg’s new movie about the 1971 debate within the editorial ranks of The Washington Post about whether or not to publish Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers, classified documents that revealed decades of executive branch deceit and cynicism that prolonged America’s disastrous involvement in the Vietnam War. We’ll talk about how this movie resonates in 2018 as a celebration of the free press, and as an indictment of the hypermasculine industries of newspapers and politics in the early 1970s.

the indoob! podcast
episode 50 - poor unfortunate souls LIVE!

the indoob! podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2017 114:42


To celebrate 50 episodes, Shannon from Nerds of Prey Podcast and Nick from MEGASheen podcast join Sterling and Kortney on a very special episode recorded live on YouTube. The usual nonsense is discussed including who is and isn't sponsoring the show. (Sorry Duncan Hines, we love you and your Perfect Size For 1 treats!) Clowns are no joke. Also, be sure to check out Pioneer of African American Cinema on Netflix! Later, the group debate on what makes a good villain and rate their favorite baddies from TV, film, book and video game. In celebrating 50 episodes, Sterling is hosting his first Amazon giveaway of Grant Snider's "The Shape of Ideas" where 2 lucky winners will recieve a copy of the inspiring book. Click here before May 31, 2017 for a chance to win! Check out Nerds of Prey. Check out the MEGASheen. And if that wasn't enough, please support the Indoob Network with the Patreon! http://patreon.com/indoob

The Tom Ficklin Show
Politicking and Emergent Media

The Tom Ficklin Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2016 57:49


On this episode, host Tom Ficklin sits down with film historian and Yale Professor Charlie Musser to talk about his five-dvd box set "Pioneers of African American Cinema," why Yale should think of changing the name of Calhoun College, his new book "Politics and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s," and what to make of a wild campaign season.

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The Frances Farmer Show
Episode 3: Prospero's Books and The Princess of France

The Frances Farmer Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2016 80:09


With the First Folio in town at the Seattle Public Library, we take a look at a couple of unusual Shakespeare adaptations. First is Peter Greenaway's 1991 adaptation of The Tempest, Prospero's Books, with John Gielgud and Mark Rylance. Then we discuss Matías Piñeiro's 2014 riff on Love's Labour's Lost, The Princess of France. We also pick our Essential Shakespeare films, look around at what's coming soon to Seattle Screens, and discuss the 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA, directed by Spencer Williams and playing as part of the Pioneers of African-American Cinema here in town and touring around the country.

WFIU: Movies
Preserving The Work Of Filmmaker Richard E. Norman

WFIU: Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2015 4:20


IU's Black Film Archive Center received a grant to fund the Richard E. Norman Project, preserving many important early 20th-century "race films."

Freedom thru Speech
The Is Black Entertainment Dead? Episode: Who Stole the Soul?

Freedom thru Speech

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2010 60:02


Who killed Whitley Gilbert? Have all the Boyz left the Hood? The Jacks ain't new anymore, and no one seems to be fighting the power. But we're on the case! This week Max, Rip, and Michele ponder just what happened to all our quality 90's entertainment. Join us to discuss your favorites as we try to get over our Love Jones for quality movies, music, and television, and try to ascertain where it has all gone.

Freedom thru Speech
The Is Black Entertainment Dead? Episode: Who Stole the Soul?

Freedom thru Speech

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2010 60:02


Who killed Whitley Gilbert? Have all the Boyz left the Hood? The Jacks ain't new anymore, and no one seems to be fighting the power. But we're on the case! This week Max, Rip, and Michele ponder just what happened to all our quality 90's entertainment. Join us to discuss your favorites as we try to get over our Love Jones for quality movies, music, and television, and try to ascertain where it has all gone.