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...film courses not in the VES department, Visiting Lecturer Isaac Julien's class Afro-American Studies 187y: "Black Cinema as Genre--From Blaxploitation to Quentin Tarantino" takes on Hollywood to explore how black people have appeared in movies...
...focuses on the use of stereotypes and hyperbole in the genre of Blaxploitation cinema in the 1970s and explores how this genre has been appropriated by 1990s directors...and critiqued by others," according to the syllabus...
Julien has had an accomplished career in cinema himself, with work displayed at numerous museums and film festivals...
What does it take to get those mortal enemies, China and Taiwan, to work together? Just a Chinese kid who moved to New York City. Hu's Shadow Magic, about a British entrepreneur (Jared Harris) bringing the cinema to China in 1902, is the first film co-produced by the Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corp. Hu, 44, is a child of the Cultural Revolution; her parents were sent to labor camps while she served as a Red Guard. She taught herself English and in 1979 was among the first Chinese sent to U.S. schools...
...past year's flood of unusual and provocative mainstream films (Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, Fight Club) seemed to be an indication that an era of movie-making had ended, and that the artistic future of cinema would hold no place for the lengthy and sweeping sagas that culminated with the behemoth of Titanic. But Paul Thomas Anderson knew better. His brilliant Magnolia resurrects the epic from its wasted and moribund form and, in David Bowie-like fashion, makes it new and meaningful again...