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... of young African American men would possess an American spectacle for centuries."1 From the blaxploitation film boom of the sixties and seven• expensive camera equipment. The intrepid cine- ties to the "hood" films of the nineties, African matographer and cameraman Charles Burnett American visual...

...Elizabeth Mermin Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 CRACKS IN THE SHIELD harles Burnett's most recent film, The Glass Shield (1995), is is part of the story only because there is no story beyond the protago• remarkable...

... Charles Burnett, the African American filmmaker whose classic film Killer of Sheep has been given a new These developments and theoretical considerations life with the enthusiastic critical reception of its re- sum up the conceptual...

..., realistic style often illustrates dramatically West Africans, including Benga. In November 1935 angled anatomies and contains a theatrical flair. Porter’s wife, Dorothy Burnett, wrote a review of These tendencies are detected in his 1938 painting Gorer’s book for The Crisis, taking note of Benga’s...

..., Tommy Lott, Arthur Jafa (A. J Ntozake practice of transferring values directly, and in per- Shange, Herman Gray, Lisa Jones, Charles Burnett, son, the way a mãe dos santos in Candomble ritual Alice Walker, Michele Wallace, Julie Dash, Menelik transmits the spirit to an initiate through the touch...

... Burnett, director of To Sleep with responsive. Like Gallery 32, the Brockman Gallery Anger, joined forces to focus their cinematic atten- featured black artists — though not exclusively. To tions on LA’s black communities, setting up shop expand their support base, the Davis brothers also in Leimert...

... was at the heart of position of self-reflexivity and self-critique of our the exhibition Magiciens de la terre (1989), and the own methods. This is the quality of Colin’s ani- same type of framing was very much in evidence mated disapproval of the term visual culture, even in Rick Burnett’s...