PhD defence
Paying the Dues: Black Documentary Film and the Quest for Truth
- M. Ellethy
- Date
- Tuesday 27 May 2025
- Time
- Location
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Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden
Supervisor(s)
- Prof.dr. D.A. Pargas
- dr.W.M. Schmidli
- dr. P. Hesselberth
Summary
'Paying the Dues: Black Documentary Film and The Quest for Truth' is an examination of a partially forgotten vibrant history of Black documentary film in 1960s, which can only be coined as a Black documentary renaissance. This study sheds light on how the 1960s gave rise to a revived interest in documentary filmmaking among Black artists, communities, activists, and organizers. Black documentary film as a form of art, cultural resistance, and self-expression, constituted a nexus between Black liberatory politics and Black visual culture. Most importantly, the films encapsulate how this engagement constituted a quest for truth, seeking to reveal truth-narratives about pressing issues that confronted Black communities across the nation, bringing to the forefront discussions about Black identity, visuality, diversity, solidarity, gender, and imagination.
PhD dissertations
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