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Full Record for Film No. 36


Title:Passion of Remembrance
Director 1:Isaac Julien
Director 2:Maureen Blackwood
Country:UK
Year:1986
length:75 mins
Colour/b-w:colour
Genre:documentary, experimental
Screenwriter:Isaac Julien, Maureen Blackwood
Cinematographer:
Editor:
Producer:
Production company:Channel 4
Cast:Antonia Thomas, Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles
Location:TABB
TABB No.:32
Synopsis:Issues such as gender relations, homophobia and black history are analysed in a dialogic fashion in this seminal production of the 1980s. The film portrays black people from various social, cultural and generational backgrounds and critically exposes the seemingly uncontested grand narratives of black power and liberation .
Keyword 1:racism
Keyword 2:police
Keyword 3:London
Keyword 4:homophobia
Keyword 5:homosexuality
Keyword 6:emancipation
Keyword 7:masculinity
Keyword 8:gender
Keyword 9:women
Keyword 10:black
Keyword 11:family
Keyword 12:politics
Text Reference 1:England (Interview with Maureen Blackwood)
Text Reference 2:The Passion of Remembrance: An Interview with Martina Attille and Isaac Julien
Text Reference 3:The Passion of Remembrance: Background Interview with Sankofa
Text Reference 4:Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7)
Text Reference 5:Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation
Text Reference 6:Black Film in 80s Britain
Text Reference 7:The Passion of Remembrance: Background
Text Reference 8:Interview with Sankofa Film Collective
Text Reference 9:Look Back and Talk Black: The Films of Isaac Julien
Text Reference 10:Young, British and Black
Text Reference 11:Imaged Communities: Black British Film in the Eighties and Nineties
Text Reference 12:Taking a Different Angle: Perspectives on the Depiction of Women in Black British Independent Film of the 1980s

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