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Author 1:Colin MacCabe
Title:Black Film in 80s Britain
Published in:Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7)
Edited by:Kobena Mercer, ed.
Place:London
Publisher:Institute of Contemporary Arts
Year:1988
Vol./No./Date:
Pages:31-32
Location:FB Neuphilologie: OG 850.036
Synopsis:Colin MacCabe explores what it means to be British and the role of black British films in the formation of (black) British identity. He discusses the films "Playing Away", "Handsworth Songs" and "Passion of Remembrance".
Keyword 1:black British film
Keyword 2:identity
Keyword 3:audience
Keyword 4:Maureen Blackwood
Keyword 5:Isaac Julien
Keyword 6:Horace Ové
Keyword 7:John Akomfrah
Keyword 8:British cinema
Keyword 9:film
Keyword 10:black filmmaking
Keyword 11:Britishness
Film Reference 1:Passion of Remembrance
Film Reference 2:Playing Away
Film Reference 3:Handsworth Songs

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