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BLACK HISTORY MONTH TIME.com celebrates Black History Month with a special section on the history and contributions of black Americans. We feature profiles of great black thinkers, artists and athletes who have shaped American culture, an essay by Christopher John Farley on African Americans in the American cinema and extensive galleries of classic photos from the pages of TIME and LIFE. At time.com/2002/bhm...
...much as the marketing department at New Line Cinema might want audience members to forget, the megamovie Lord of the Rings has a history that predates Elijah Wood's hairy toes. Amid the cultural storm of the 1960s, American hippies put down their bongs, turned down the Hendrix and transformed an obscure three-volume fantasy by an Oxford professor into a counterculture classic. Rings-mania swept U.S. campuses, prompting TIME to comment, in the quaint parlance of the age, "The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD." New initiates wore buttons declaring "Frodo Lives...
Currently, courses such as Love’s Literature 105, “Introduction to the Theory of Sexuality” and Epps’ Romance Studies 196, “Other Romances: Literature, Cinema, and Queerness” are housed in various departments and advertised only by word of mouth and e-mail...
...most frustrating aspects of the show is the location of “Looking for Langston” (1989), a 45 minute film directed by Isaac Julien (VES 151ar, “The Post-Cinematic in Video Art”, African-American Studies 187y, “Black Cinema as Genre—From Blaxploitation to Quentin Tarantino”). It is almost impossible to truly appreciate the beauty of Julien’s film while standing in the Carpenter Center: the lighting is not ideal, the screen is tiny and embedded in an enormous white wall, and the ambient...
...viewers fail to realize the importance of Lang’s many other films. His great silent films such as Destiny (1921), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), and Die Nibelungen (1923-24) should not be ignored. Bunuel believes that Destiny opened his eyes to the poetic expressiveness of the cinema. This fantastical film, which is about the fight of the individual against the forces of death, or destiny, is based on a Grimms fairy tale, and is in the German romantic tradition. Dr. Mabuse captures the essence of post-war despair and is a commentary on the dangers of political...