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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, April 10 to welcome  Allyson Nadia Field  (UCLA) for her talk, "Fixing The Birth of a Nation : Hampton Institute, The New Era, and the Ambiguities of Uplift."    Cynthia Blair  (UIC ) will provide the response. The CFS will be held  at a new location --Notre Dame's Loop Campus at 224 S. Michigan Ave. (the room number and entrance instructions will be forthcoming).    Thursday, April 10 at 6:30pm Allyson Nadia Field , UCLA  "Fixing The Birth of a Nation : Hampton Institute, The New Era , and the Ambiguities of Uplift" Respondent :  Cynthia Blair , UIC Field describes her talk as follows: This talk considers the intersection of African American uplift cinema and The Birth of a Nation.   In April 1915, when The Birth of a Nation  had its Boston premiere, it was met with strong protest from African Americans and those supportive of the "Negro cause."  To appeas...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 19 to welcome Miriam Petty (Northwestern) for her talk, " A Dance with Uncle Billy: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and African American Children's Spectatorship. " Karen Bowdre (Indiana) will provide the response. The CFS will be held, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307 of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Thursday, January 19 at 6:30pm Miriam Petty , Northwestern "A Dance with Uncle Billy: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and African American Children's Spectatorship" Respondent: Karen Bowdre , Indiana Petty describes her talk as follows: My paper uses celebrated tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and his cinematic relationship with child star Shirley Temple as the springboard for an examination of African American children’s spectatorship in the 1930s and early 40s. Relying on a variety of autobiography, memoir and personal ...

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...