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During the L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Symposium, panelist Ed Guerrero, professor of film and African American studies at New York University, discussed Black film then and now. He opened by addressing the controversial comparison of the films from the L.A. Rebellion to those of the Blaxploitation era.

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
November 21, 2011 - 1:09 pm
November 21, 2011 - 1:09 pm

The L.A. Rebellion symposium opened Saturday morning with a welcome and introduction by Allyson Nadia Field and Jacqueline Stewart, who contextualized the symposium in relation to the history of the L.A. Rebellion and the current UCLA initiative.  Dr.

At 1:30pm, UCLA Assistant Professor Allyson Nadia Field introduced the second panel of the day at the November 12th all-day symposium for the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Fall 2011 program, “L.A.

“Authentic portrayals have pitfalls," Clyde Taylor said in his keynote speech at the L.A. Rebellion Symposium on Saturday, November 12. This statement seemed to describe the entire L.A.

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
November 16, 2011 - 10:27 am

Fragrance writer, director Gay Abel-Bey’s MFA thesis project at UCLA is a touching film with a strong classic, old Hollywood veneer that makes witnessing crisis points in the film’s family easier to watch.  The debate over who should fight in a war and for what purpose is superb fodder for a film’s

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