May 12: Jacqueline Stewart on "Discovering Black Cinema"
Please join the Chicago Film Seminar on Thursday, May 12 for our final meeting of the year, a talk by Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern) on "Discovering Black Film History: Tracing the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection." Michael Martin of the The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University will respond. The meeting will take place at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center , Cobb Hall Room 307, at 5811 S. Ellis Ave . Thursday, May 12 at 6:30pm 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago IL Cobb Hall Room 307 - University of Chicago Film Studies Center Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern) "Discovering Black Film History: Tracing the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection" Respondent: Michael Martin (Indiana) Stewart describes her talk as follows: My paper revisits the “discovery” of the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection in 1983, the most highly publicized effort to preserve African American films to date. I explore the appeals and dangers of framing these early Black-cas...