Čeprav so mnogi stari kraji v ZDA dobro ohranjeni, veliko območij zgodovinske in kulturne vrednosti zaradi opuščanja izginja. V nekaterih primerih imajo restavratorji zaradi stanja teh krajev težko ...delo, v drugih primerih pa uprave in kulturne ustanove za izboljšanje lokalnega gospodarstva uvajajo strateške prostorske načrte, s katerimi želijo pritegniti turiste in urediti zgodovinske tematske parke. Novejše raziskave odnosa med zgodovino in kolektivnim spominom pa so ta območja postavile pod drobnogled. Čeprav spomin za nekatera zgodovinska območja hitro izgineva, dobiva več pozornosti kot v preteklosti, s čimer se krepita lokalna identiteta in občutek pripadnosti skupnosti. V članku je obravnavano več načrtov in načrtovalskih strategij, ki so bili razviti za oblikovanje spomeniške pokrajine v Alabami, dokumentirani in preučeni pa so tudi nekateri ključni odnosi med načrtovanjem mest in obeleževanjem zgodovine Afroameričanov.
La rappresentazione dell’Altro e delle classi subalterne, l’interesse per le lotte e i processi di decolonizzazione, il terzomondismo, il sogno africano e la visione di un non circoscrivibile ...Panmeridione sono elementi centrali dell’opera di Pasolini, che è costellata di riferimenti all’Africa, agli africani e alla loro diaspora. Ma accanto a un’immagine ‘essenzializzata’ e ‘conservatrice’ dell’Africa, radicata nel continente e atta a preservare la sacralità della poesia e dell’universo popolare, Pasolini concepisce anche, avanti coi tempi, un’africanità diasporica, altamente influenzata dalle grandi migrazioni, dalla tratta transatlantica e dai movimenti per i diritti civili degli afroamericani.«The Transplanted Plant with Uncovered Roots»: Transatlantic Diaspora and African-Americans in Pasolini’s oeuvreThe representation of subaltern classes and the ‘other’, the decolonization struggles, the ‘Third World’, the ‘African dream”, and the vision of a never-ending Pan-South are crucial elements in Pasolini’s work, which is studded with references to Africa and African diaspora. Besides an ‘essentialized’ and ‘conservative’ image of Africa, one that is rooted in the continent and meant to preserve poetry, the sacred and the popolare, Pasolini conceived, ahead of his times, diasporic images of Africa and Africans that were highly influenced by mass migrations, the transatlantic slave trade, and the African-American civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds? The Palestinian Idea argues that it is precisely through film and media that hope can ...occasionally emerge amidst hopelessness, emancipation amidst oppression, freedom amidst apartheid. Greg Burris employs the work of Edward W. Said, Jacques Rancière, and Cedric J. Robinson in order to locate Palestinian utopia in the heart of the Zionist present. He analyzes the films of prominent directors Annemarie Jacir ( Salt of This Sea, When I Saw You ) and Hany Abu-Assad ( Paradise Now )to investigate the emergence and formation of Palestinian identity. Looking at Mais Darwazah's documentary My Love Awaits Me By the Sea, Burris considers the counterhistories that make up the Palestinian experience—stories and memories that have otherwise been obscured or denied. He also examines Palestinian (in)visibility in the global media landscape, and how issues of Black- Palestinian transnational solidarity are illustrated through social media, staged news spectacles, and hip hop music.
Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, ...these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Setting his study against the backdrop of America's ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and “otherness”; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking. The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.
Gaskew presents a prison-based education designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned-helplessness. He explores the Black ...counter-culture of crime and tasks incarcerated Black men to draw upon the strength of their cultural privilege to transform from criminal offender into student.
Hollywood film directors are some of the world’s most powerful storytellers, shaping the fantasies and aspirations of people around the globe. Since the 1960s, African Americans have increasingly ...joined their ranks, bringing fresh insights to movie characterizations, plots, and themes and depicting areas of African American culture that were previously absent from mainstream films. Today, black directors are making films in all popular genres, while inventing new ones to speak directly from and to the black experience. This book offers a first comprehensive look at the work of black directors in Hollywood, from pioneers such as Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles, and Ossie Davis to current talents including Spike Lee, John Singleton, Kasi Lemmons, and Carl Franklin. Discussing 67 individuals and over 135 films, Melvin Donalson thoroughly explores how black directors’ storytelling skills and film techniques have widened both the thematic focus and visual style of American cinema. Assessing the meanings and messages in their films, he convincingly demonstrates that black directors are balancing Hollywood’s demand for box office success with artistic achievement and responsibility to ethnic, cultural, and gender issues.
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