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Monday, September 13
African-American Performance in Hollywood
discussant: Eric Lott, English
Black and Tan
dir. Dudley Murphy; with Duke Ellington; 19 min., 1929
Hallelujah!
dir: King Vidor; with Daniel N. Haynes; music by Irving Berlin, 90 min., 1929
Monday, September 20 Documents of French Colonial Africa discussant: Alison Levine, French
Sous les masques noirs (Under the Black Masks)
dir: Marcel Griaule, 9 min., 1938
La France est un empire (France is an Empire)
compilation film written by Jean d'Agraives and Emmanuel Bourcier, 90 min., 1939
Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die)
dir: Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 30 min., 1953
Monday, September 27 Josephine Baker in Paris discussant: Carmenita Higginbotham, Art/American Studies
Excerpts from La Revue des revues (Parisian Pleasures)
dir: Joe Francys; with Josephine Baker, 1927
La Princesse Tam Tam (Princess Tam Tam)
dir: Edmond Gréville; with Josephine Baker, 77 min., 1935
Monday, October 4 Man Ray: Filmmaker discussant: Matthew Affron
Retour à la raison (Return to Reason)
2 min., 1923
Ballet mécanique
dir: Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger; with cinematography by Man Ray, 19 min., 1924
Emak-Bakia
16 min., 1926
L'Etoile de mer (The Starfish)
15 min., 1928
Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mysteries of the Château of Dice)
20 min., 1929
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