Cinema of the Black Atlantic

By: John E. Drabinski
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  • Podcasted process pieces from my course “Cinema of the Black Atlantic” at University of Maryland.
    © 2024 John E. Drabinski
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Art History Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Silence and Black Masculinity in The Brother From Another Planet

    Silence and Black Masculinity in The Brother From Another Planet
    Nov 29 2023

    Discussion of the John Sayles 1984 film The Brother From Another Planet, in particular how the silence of the alien - Brother - allows us to see features of race and gender in American life.
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    32 mins
  • Dash and Gerima on What is an African American

    Dash and Gerima on What is an African American
    Nov 7 2023

    A discussion of Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust and Haile Gerima's Sankofa, centered on the question "What is an African American?" I explore how Dash answers this question by filtering the memory of Africa through the "American" part of African American, but Gerima inverts this prerogative and understands the "American" to be a sign of alienation that is redeemed by "African."
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    28 mins
  • Home and the Postcolonial State in Jean Marie Teno's Clando

    Home and the Postcolonial State in Jean Marie Teno's Clando
    Sep 28 2023

    A discussion of Jean Marie Teno's 1996 film Clando, with particular focus on how the degeneration of the postcolonial state transforms a sense of home, nation, land, and embodiment.
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    30 mins

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