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Author 1:Cora Birke
Title:Taking a Different Angle: Perspectives on the Depiction of Women in Black British Independent Film of the 1980s
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Place:Dresden
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Year:2002
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Location:TABB
Synopsis:Unpublished master's thesis which investigates the representation of black women in independent black British filmmaking in the cultural context of 1980s Britain and black feminist theory. The thesis discusses in detail the films "Burning an Illusion", "Passion of Remembrance" and "Dreaming Rivers".
Keyword 1:black filmmaking
Keyword 2:black British film
Keyword 3:gender
Keyword 4:cultural studies
Keyword 5:feminism
Keyword 6:identity
Keyword 7:women
Keyword 8:Britain
Keyword 9:society
Keyword 10:Sankofa
Keyword 11:independent film
Keyword 12:representation
Keyword 13:Maureen Blackwood
Keyword 14:non-mainstream
Keyword 15:Burning an Illusion
Keyword 16:West Indian
Keyword 17:aesthetics
Keyword 18:blackness
Keyword 19:Britishness
Keyword 20:Menelik Shabazz
Keyword 21:1980s
Keyword 22:workshop
Keyword 23:Martina Attille
Keyword 24:postcolonialism
Keyword 25:Isaac Julien
Film Reference 1:Burning An Illusion
Film Reference 2:Dreaming Rivers
Film Reference 3:Passion of Remembrance

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