...Ian Merkel This article is a critical reading of the Franco-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s films and their reception in France, Algeria, and the United States. Whereas Days of Glory , which deals with African soldiers who fought on behalf of France in World War II, was praised for its...

... Days of Glory of Glory Days 3...

...." Lumumba begins with an opening montage that mixes portrait of Raoul Peck authentic photographic stills documenting Belgium's notorious colonial cruelty with the credits and the opening sequence—a garden party with shots of Alex Descas in all his regal glory as the late...

... time I viewed the piece sonal, this is ultimately a universal Her Own Image, and Baltimore Glory. I couldn't hear the audio; even though American tragedy, the inevitable and The work seeks to honor and remember I more or less knew the narrative...

...• periods. One problem with this is that ment of glory. As that moment ap• that he envisioned, and in many cases dent of Senegal. In recognition...

... is figured as both way opens out the experience into a cinematic prison and safe haven. It is grand but crumbling, one, disrupting the way that we have grown used the former glory of its art deco splendor is now in to viewing the piece. It serves to reanchor the nar• a state of slow...

... like each other, who shared a dream and a with a voice of agony that some of us dearfy common history of suffering and glory. It is recognize. A brother's insistence to sway his...

... 1973 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1985); and David S. Rubin, Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue) (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1994). ...

... of the jungle. Amid the poinsettias, that idea of glory vanished. The naval battles and the once palms, and coconut trees, the fantasy of an Afroland—a great names of the eighteenth-century admirals were for• Caribbean island entirely populated and governed...

... American life and culture in the last half of the twentieth century. It was critical to argue that these garments, in all their aesthetic and name-brand glory...

... victory—­on which normative, sexual, perceptual), by inventing its con- the film unapologetically turns. ceivable existence in a context where art has histori- 12 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 cally sung the glory of the nation-­state. In Giardini...

... of her own being. like accumulation of paint, creating an almost hypnotic visual For Atnafu, art evokes memory and contemplates the glory of impact of psychedelic effect. It is the hybrid postmodern world of an the past; meets the present while yet shaping the future...

... compared to a narrow standard of beauty and to its former glory. At the same time, the legendary forced to defend our aesthetic when no other race fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, who represented of women endures this constant examination, criti- American fashion designers, was looking for an cism...

... about the Negro and glories in them"2—a view independence in 1902, had this status circum• shared by a number of other critics. However, my scribed by the Piatt Amendment of 1901 (eventu• alternative interpretation is that Cesaire's formu• ally abrogated in 1934), giving...

... ironic that the strongest works within a Bronx born exhibi• tion on hip-hop would originate from Asian and Afro-British artists. Within the exhibition, most of the positive musings on hip- hop are relegated to a nostalgia for the music's past glory days, its party-days of break dancing...

... Glory (1939), Production: Samuel Goldwyn, emerge simultaneously as legitimations of and Director: Henry Hathaway. Starring Gary Cooper, Andrea Leeds and enabling fictions for economic, military, and polit• David Niven. Based on a novel by Charles L. Clifford...

... artwork that astounds the viewer not only in its magnitude, but also in its haunting and in the perfect beauty the lined trees radiate. Even through the death of the trees one can paradoxically conceive the beauty of the tree that once existed, and one yearns for the tree s glory to come back. While...

... as the director of educa- bles included David Hammons, Melvin Edwards, tion. These proved to be glory days, and Outter- Dr. Samella Lewis, E. J. Montgomery, Noah Puri- bridge hobnobbed with some of the most acclaimed foy, Dale and Alonzo Davis, Betye Saar, and Dan national and international artists of the era...

... bath• room shaving all the hair from her person and letting it drop to the floor. In Span II, a performance created for the 2 nd Johannesburg Biennale of 1997, Rose in all her shaved glory sat inside of a large glass display...

... In the protest anthem “Mississippi Goddamn essay first appeared in Drama Review 12, no. 2 (1968): 29–39. 9. David Hilliard (with Lewis Cole), This Side of Glory: The recorded in 1964 at the height of anti–civil rights Autobiography of David...