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 Tony Cokes & Donald Trammel, |
This encyclopaedic, commentated succession of film credits, from Casablanca through Gone With the Wind to Do the Right Thing, set to the rhythm of a strong hip-hop beat, demonstrates unmistakably the way, in the course of film and TV history, black men have been exposed (and sometimes exposed themselves) to exploitation and stereotyping. In fragments from a selection of dated and more recent Hollywood films which explicitly represent (or do not represent) the black (Afro-American) environment, two black homosexual men point out significant gestures, looks, hesitations and other details which seldom or never occur to the average white heterosexual audience. A furious interaction, cross-fertilization and clash between word and image : at the top of the screen, as a not especially silent witness, there runs an unceasing lexicon of monuments from film history which construct "the black man as a black". |
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 Heidi |
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 No other Possibility |
 Superstar |
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