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...Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance luminary and Harvard scholar Alain Leroy Locke, and their purpose is “to bring distinguished persons to deliver lectures on topics related to the field of African-American Culture and history.” Peebles??s intended topics at his evening lectures are “Tokyo Traffic & Sea Turtles Laying Eggs,” “Porsches & Pyramids,” and lastly “Urban Culture & Dreams Deferred.” Elaborating on his cryptic lecture titles, Mr.Van Peebles?...
Allie Fields, one of the organizers of Van Peebles?? Harvard visit and teaching fellow to Professor Sollors’ course African and African American Studies 136, “Black and White in Drama and Film,” articulates the relationship between Van Peebles?? art and politics: “Van Peebles??s politics are indeed revolutionary. But aesthetically, his films are defined by constraints—of finances, style, and content—which make them doubly significant. They are on the surface aesthetically modernist, but in the context of their production...
...Three-Day Pass,” especially, embodies the avant-garde aesthetic. Van Peebles?? film greatly resembles those of his European contemporaries who comprised the nouvelle vague movement in French cinema. Van Peebles use of hand held cameras, source lighting, and jump cuts all evidence his stylistic indebtedness to Jean-Luc Godard, the movement’s leading light, but thematically he is beholden to no other. His is a uniquely defiant voice...
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