{"id":2187,"date":"2017-02-20T23:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2017-04-03T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:38:55","slug":"home-is-where-the-hatred-is-film-blackness-and-the-politics-of-black-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Home is Where the Hatred Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 27th Michael Gillespie will deliver a talk at City College entitled, &#8220;Home is Where the Hatred Is: Film Blackness and the Politics of Black Becoming&#8221;.\u00a0 The talk will take place in the Rifkind Room, NAC 6\/316 from 12:30 &#8211; 2:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The talk focuses on two recent films that demonstrate a rich and necessary complication of the idea of black film.\u00a0 Anna Rose Holmer&#8217;s &#8220;The Fits (2015)&#8221; and Frances Bodomo&#8217;s &#8220;Everybody Dies! (2016)&#8221; collectively compel radical and innovative enactments of narrative, aesthetics, and historiography.\u00a0 The talk will consider the stakes of each film in the terms of film blackness, a critical measure of cinema&#8217;s place in black visual and expressive culture.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film, Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at City College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 27th Michael Gillespie will deliver a talk at City College entitled, &#8220;Home is Where the Hatred Is: Film Blackness and the Politics of Black Becoming&#8221;.\u00a0 The talk will take place in the Rifkind Room, NAC 6\/316 from 12:30 &#8211; 2:00 PM. The talk focuses on two recent films that demonstrate a rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}