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Cruel Imitations: Almena Davis vs. Hollywood
April 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Featuring: Dr. Ellen Scott
Before there were Black women film directors like Julie Dash, Cheryl Dunye, and Ava Duvernay, there were generations of Black women who, lacking access to the director’s chair, expressed their powerful and evocative ideas about the screen through critical writing. This talk focuses on one of these critics, Almena Davis, editor of the Los Angeles Tribune who waged the most daring campaign for racial equality of Hollywood images in American History.
This event is free and open to the public. This event is a part of Blackness 360°: Art, Culture, Health, and Futures, a series of curated experiences designed to deepen knowledge about the multiplicity and complexity of Blackness and Black experiences. The series is organized by UF Black Affairs in partnership with its 2020-21 Faculty Fellow. Support provided by co-sponsors: UF Center for Arts Migration and Entrepreneurship, UF Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Center for Latin American Studies, and The Power Lab.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Ellen Scott is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Associate Dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She is author of Cinema Civil Rights: Race, Repression, and Representation in Classical Hollywood Cinema and the first person of color to receive the Academy Scholars grant for her upcoming project exploring slavery on the cinema screen.