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...from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
—Charles Darwin
Fall 2009 Evolution, Diversity and Change
FILM SERIES - (Re)presenting Race in African American Film
NOTHING BUT A MAN
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Showtime: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center (Room A201)
Nothing But a Man is a 1964 movie about an African American man in the American South who wants to be treated as "nothing but a man", instead of a "boy". It stars Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest, Leonard Parker, and Yaphet Kotto. The movie was written by Michael Roemer and Robert M. Young and directed by Roemer. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Nothing But a Man was reputedly the favorite film of Malcolm X.
THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Showtime: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center (Room A201)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door a 1973 film, which is based on the novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency's elitist espionage program as its token black. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters." As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
DO THE RIGHT THING
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Showtime: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center (Room A201)
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer. Director Lee also stars in the film, alongside Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. The film is also notable in that it marks the feature film debuts of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez.
