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Author 1:Kobena Mercer
Title:Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation
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:4-14
Location:FB Neuphilologie: OG 850.036
Synopsis:This article discusses the changes which have occurred in black independent film-making in the 1980s. Mercer focuses primarily on the historical formation of black films and the 'burden of representation'.
Keyword 1:1980s
Keyword 2:representation
Keyword 3:black filmmaking
Keyword 4:history
Keyword 5:Britain
Keyword 6:black British film
Keyword 7:non-mainstream
Keyword 8:film theory
Keyword 9:film
Keyword 10:aesthetics
Keyword 11:workshop
Keyword 12:black filmmaking
Keyword 13:Isaac Julien
Keyword 14:John Akomfrah
Keyword 15:Maureen Blackwood
Keyword 16:Horace Ové
Keyword 17:independent film
Film Reference 1:Passion of Remembrance
Film Reference 2:Playing Away
Film Reference 3:Handsworth Songs

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