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Author 1:Kobena Mercer, ed.
Title:Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7)
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Place:London
Publisher:Institute of Contemporary Arts
Year:1988
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Location:TABB; FB Neuphilologie: OG 850.036
Synopsis:Landmark publication based on a conference about black British film held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1988. It contains articles on questions of representation, aesthetics (realist, avant-garde, Third Cinema), audiences and the role of Channel Four. Films discussed in greater detail are "Passion of Remembrance", "Handsworth Songs", "Playing Away" and "My Beautiful Laundrette". "Black Film, British Cinema" also contains selected interviews with Black British filmmakers and reprinted newspaper articles.
Keyword 1:representation
Keyword 2:Britain
Keyword 3:independent film
Keyword 4:cultural studies
Keyword 5:Third Cinema
Keyword 6:audience
Keyword 7:Channel Four
Keyword 8:ICA conference
Keyword 9:non-mainstream
Keyword 10:mainstream
Keyword 11:Hanif Kureishi
Keyword 12:Horace Ové
Keyword 13:Maureen Blackwood
Keyword 14:Isaac Julien
Keyword 15:workshop
Keyword 16:John Akomfrah
Keyword 17:film theory
Keyword 18:black filmmaking
Keyword 19:black British film
Keyword 20:1980s
Keyword 21:aesthetics
Keyword 22:film
Keyword 23:television
Film Reference 1:Handsworth Songs
Film Reference 2:Passion of Remembrance
Film Reference 3:Playing Away
Film Reference 4:My Beautiful Laundrette

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