ALS 3170 - Black Hollywood 3 s.h.

This course analyzes the role Hollywood film productions played in either cementing or deconstructing anti-Black imagery popularized during the 19th and 20th century. The course provides a comparative examination of how White and Black filmmakers visualized and produced the Black aesthetic and how actors and actresses portrayed blackness in film productions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Films analyzed in the course include: The Birth of Nation, Within Our Gates, The Blood of Jesus, Veiled Aristocrats, Pinky, A Patch of Blue, The Dutchman, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Claudine, The Color Purple, Do the Right Thing, Boyz in the Hood, Malcolm X, Moonlight, and BlacKkKlansman. A-E Only. Offered irregularly.
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