Oscars Academy Gives Film Scholars Grants to Books About Race in Hollywood
thewrap.comAlso Read: Oscars Academy Nails Diversity Goals for Membership, Eligibility Rules Could Be NextIn that release, Gates said, “My project takes a critical look at the relationship between film aesthetics and blackness and also highlights the brilliance and ingenuity of Black creatives who have appropriated these elements of film style to envision new horizons for the black image in film and television.”Prime is the associate editor of Film Quarterly magazine and the author of “Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture.” Her book will examine Jules Dassin’s 1968 film “Uptight,” of which she said,”The intense emotions and tensions that drove the production of ‘Uptight’ resulted in a movie that still has much to tell us.
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