Media praxis within ethnographic film restructures many of anthropology’s founding positions. The naming of unequal relations of power, difference, and knowledge production between the anthropologist (author) and the Third World or indigenous native (subject) is both subject and method of this tradition. Writes Jean Rouch, “every time a film is made there is cultural disruption.” [...]
In direct dialogue with the poststructuralist, deconstructive work preceding it, black independent filmmaking and criticism added an anti-essentialist politics of race, nation, and ethnicity to these earlier traditions that had typically sought far and wide for an “other” from outside the Anglo-European context. Instead, one could be black and British without contradiction, or black and [...]
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A compelling look at the third largest movie industry in the world - in the heart of Africa.
Nollywood Babylon is a feature documentary about the explosive popularity of Nigeria’s movie industry.
The film drops viewers into the chaos of Lagos’ Idumota market. Here, among the bustling stalls, films are sold and unlikely stars [...]
“Decolonization, we know, is a historical process: In other words, it can only be understood, it can only find its significance and become self coherent insofar as we can discern the history-making movement which gives in form and substance. Decolonization is the encounter between two congenitally antagonistic forces that in face owe their singularity to [...]
With the 2008 presidential election, Americans face a pivotal choice between not just two candidates, but two paradigms. We need someone who understands the complexity of our time. Someone who believes in investing in renewable energy, in education, in women’s rights, in civil rights, in healthcare for Americans. Someone who believes in dealing with global [...]
Our fearless leader will triumph!
Don’t tell me the cult of the presidency doesn’t exist…
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the obsessive consumption of images of a racialized Other known as the Primitive is usefully labeled fascinating cannibalism. By “fascinating cannibalism” i mean to draw attention to the mixture of fascination and horror that the “ethnographic” occasion: the cannibalism” is not that of the people who are labeled Savages, but that of the consumers of [...]
Available for the first time on home DVD on March 18th Tongues Untied shares fierce examples of homophobia and racism: the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color; the college student left bleeding on the sidewalk after a gay-bashing; the loneliness and isolation of the drag queen. Yet they also affirm [...]
the finale Bollywood number from Pratibha Parmar’s 2006 feature film Nina’s Heavenly Delights choreographed by Piers Gielgud.
Zach Galifianakis gives his usual twist to a Kanye West song
Gay and Proud:
Well, I’m in the process of finding myself. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the chance to know myself.
Hall’s argument that current shiftes demand the recognition of the “end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” enables us to analyze and unpack the burden of racial representation. 5
In cinematic terms the challenge to documentary realism is predicated on a relational conception of representation as a practice of selection, combination and articulation. At a textual level, such shifts have contested the hegemony of documentary realism underlying the formal codification of what Jim Pines calls the master discourse of the “race relations narrative.” 4
Black is an open-ended identity. 255
What we have been seeing in recent years is the development of a new politics of difference which states that we are not interested in defining ourselves in relation to someone else, nor are we simply articulating out cultural and secual differences. …We are creating a sense of ourselves and out place within different and [...]
In direct dialogue with the post-structuralist, deconstructive work preceding it, black independent filmmaking and criticism added an anti-essentialist politics of race, nation, and ethnicity to these earlier traditions that had typically sought far and wide for an “other” located outside the Anglo-European context. “One issue at stake,” write Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer, “is the [...]
Available for the first time on home DVD on March 18th Tongues Untied shares fierce examples of homophobia and racism: the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color; the college student left bleeding on the sidewalk after a gay-bashing; the loneliness and isolation of the drag queen. Yet they also affirm [...]
“Aware that ‘there is a Third World in every First World and vice versa’ (Trinh T. Minh-ha), the diaspora perspective has the potential to expose and illuminate the sheer heterogeneity of the diverse social forces always repressed by the monologisim of dominant discourses–discourses of domination.” Mercer