Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Anne Braden five times since first airing it on October 29, 2012. Filmmakers Anne Lewis (associate director, Harlan County, USA) and Mimi Pickering (Director, The Buffalo Creek Flood) worked with...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...MP3 audio, 44:22, https://stownpodcast.org/chapter/2. If any movie adaptation were to try to elicit the same kind of feeling in its viewers, I can't imagine it would be any less exploitative....
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...has worked as a documentary filmmaker for over ten years and, in 2010, was commissioned to produce a film about the photographer Oraien Catledge for the Mississippi Museum of Art....
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...boundaries about their own identity and culture. Indeed, Cajun critics, who helped craft public narratives around the meaning of Cajun and Creole, found the film "troubling in its omissions, oversimplifications,...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...halfway through college that I would rather work in the field of film and television production. While at Georgia State, I had wrangled cables for the audio crew of a...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...himself and came to the Schomburg Center to study films, develop his characters, and familiarize himself with the period of a given project using the Center's archives. Documentary filmmakers, especially...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Milt Grant Show, Baltimore's Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for John Waters's Hairspray film and the later Broadway musical and Hollywood film, was officially segregated and only allowed black teens to enter...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...feature films are infamous for their systematic use of racial stereotypes, as well as their artistic innovation. Griffith's film sympathetically depicted the Ku Klux Klan, implicitly giving cultural support to...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey. Courtesy of Terminus Films. We thought we were winding down the project in early 2016 before the tree fell on his...