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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Black film"”.
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The cinema of Haile Gerima : black film as a liberating cinema
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.
… namely, the historical construction of a 'black film industry' and the development of a 'black' cinema viewing audience. It does so by focusing on films produced specifically for an African audience using a state subsidy. This subsidy was introduced in 1972 and was separate from the general …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition.
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
… of exhibition and distribution of blaxploitation films across the country. Driven by economic need, yet explicitly tied to a political climate of black nationalism and a social structure which created large pockets of black film goers, blaxploitation is not only a creation of the historical …
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Black Analogue: Practices in US and UK Experimental Filmmaking as Methodological Approaches for a New Black Aesthetic
Black Aesthetic filmmaking is best realised through the use of 16mm film. I investigate the veracity of this proposition- that 16mm film is a medium that US and UK Black experimental filmmakers gravitate towards because of the aesthetic qualities and production processes it necessitates. I show …
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Vanadium Oxide Microbolometers with Patterned Gold Black or Plasmonic Resonant Absorbers
… The device utilizes a gold-doped vanadium oxide film in a standard air bridge design. Performance estimations are calculated from current theory, and efforts to maximize signal to noise ratio are shown and evaluated. Most notably, presented are the experimental results and analysis from the …
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The colouring, sealing and abrasion resistance of anodic oxide coatings
… processes. The quality of the anodic oxide film is determined by assessment tests. The use of a nitric acid ‘predip’ on soft films was shown to dissolve a soft outerlayer. A new admittance test was devised in which the ‘drift’, Y, was measured using 33%, nitric acid. This test threw light on …
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Optical performance
… and to create movement of colored images, 16mm film projection, optical printing and cameraless animation techniques were utilized. Manipulation of stained glass and glass dyes resulted in a series of colored glass slides for still projection. Work with black film leader resulted in abandoning …
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Thinning and turbulence in aqueous films
… the topic ”Thinning and Turbulence in Aqueous Films”. Experimental studies in two-dimensional systems gained an increasing amount of attention during the last decade. Thin liquid films serve as paradigms of atmospheric convection, thermal convection in the Earth’s mantle or turbulence in …
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Third Cinema in the United States, 1960-67
… struggles of Americans making socially conscious films about racial discrimination to a broader category of image warfare known as Third Cinema. Third Cinema is generally applied to the notable proliferation of politically engaged films and revolutionary filmmaking theories developed in …
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Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora
… these various sentiments have emerged in Black literary expressions. The quest of this study is to advance Black narrative tradition by proposing a theoretical framework informed by these constructs and predicaments to establish a genre of literature referred to here as Pan African …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
Considering the increase in slave films in recent years, this interdisciplinary project explores the cross-generic development of nineteenth-century slave narratives into their contemporary cinematic iterations. Continuities and changes in the (self-) representation of African Americans are …
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… to include popular fiction, television, and film for serious critical consideration. To contextualize my research, I use theories that critically examine popular literature, connecting to the work of Janice Radway and Keenan Norris, and I study the African-American focus on class as explored …