This morning in lecture I promised I’d post these:
Info here. And, from Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (1997), the montage he has suggested should be shown at the Academy Awards (alongside the montage of dead industry folks):
As I mentioned at the end of lecture, I think Lee intends this montage as a rejoinder to recent work on blackface (much of which I value) that wants to resuscitate something revolutionary or redemptive in blackface forms.
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