Write a 2,500 word essay in which you critically examine and compare the aims, methods, themes, formal traits, and stylistic characteristics of a selection of the films/videos associated with TWO topics : THE BODY, SEX & SEXUAL IDENTITIES & THE BLACK BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION. You should illustrate your discussion through reference to a variety of the films/videos and film/video-makers associated with the TWO topics. Please choose some of the following sources (including Flaming Creatures) for the topic THE BODY, SEX & SEXUAL IDENTITIES: Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947, 14 min) Un Chant dAmour/A Song of Love (Jean Genet, 1950, 26 min) The Mechanics of Love (Willard Maas and Ben Moore, 1955, 5 min) Blow Job (Andy Warhol, 1963, 19 min) Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan, 2007) Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964) O Tannenbaum / O Christmas Tree (Kurt Kren, 1964, 2 min 56 sec) Mama und Papa / Mum and Dad (Kurt Kren, 1964, 3 min 57 sec) Cosinus Alpha (Kurt Kren, 1966, 9 min) Girl Under You (Sian Alexandra Williams, 2017) Perfomance/lecture by Carolee Schneemann (2008) The Geography of the Body (Willard Maas, 1943, 7 min) Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963, 43 min) LITERATURE SOURCES which can be used ( among others of your choice in case they suit the topic well ): Stephen Barber, Kurt Kren, in The Art of Destruction: The Films of the Vienna Action Group (London: Creation, 2004), pp. 63-68. Jane Giles, “Un chant d’amour: Production and Exhibition Histories 1950-90”, in The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un chant d’amour (London, British Film Institute: 1991), pp. 17-32. Dominic Johnson, Introduction: Jack Smiths glorious catastrophes, in Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. 1-34. Kobena Mercer, Jacqueline Rose, Gayatri Spivak, and Anglea McRobbie, Sexual Identities: Questions of Difference, in Nina Danino and Michael Mazire (eds.), The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists Film and Video (London: Wallflower, 2003), pp. 143-152. Please choose some of the following sources for the topic THE BLACK BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION: Ten Bob in Winter (Lloyd Reckard, 1963, 12 min) Baldwin’s Nigger (Horace Ov, 1969, 46min) Jemima and Johnny (Lionel Ngakane, 1966, 29min) Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Frankie Dymon Jnr, 1969, 37min) Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 1986, 60min) Western Deep (Steve McQueen, 2002, 24min) The Nine Muses (John Akomfrah, 2010, 92min) Watching Online (Onyeka Igwe, 2012, 8min) Yam (vegetable) (Nacheal Catnott, 2015, 5min20) Tower XYZ (Ayo Akinbade, 2016, 3min) Rebirth is Necessary (Jenn Nkiru, 2017, 10min) Pressure (Horace Ov, 1975, 110min) Black and White in Colour: Television, Memory, Race 1936-1968 (Isaac Julien, 1992) Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Isaac Julien, 1995) Chiasmus Interview with John Akomfrah (David Lawson, 2012) [Available on the DVD of Akomfrahs The Nine Muses] The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture and the New Left Experience (John Akomfrah, 2013, 95 min) LITERATURE SOURCES which can be used ( among others of your choice in case they suit the topic well ): John Akomfrah, Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective (1983), in Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, eds. The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-1998 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2007), pp. 144-145. (First published in 1983 in Artrage Intercultural Arts magazine.) Kodwo Eshun, Death May Be Your Santa Claus, in the booklet accompanying the DVD of Joanna (Michael Sarne, 1968), pp. 17-20. (This DVD contains Death May Be Your Santa Claus as an extra.) Matthew Barrington, Changing Platforms, Sight and Sound, Vol.28, No.10, August 2018, p. 19. John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun (conversation), An Absence of Ruins, in Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, eds. The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-1998 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2007), pp. 130-137. Please include a bibliography and a filmography for the essay including at least 8 sources/references or more if you find it necessary.
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