The Indiana University College of Arts And Sciences Presents a Themester 2009 Event Sponsored by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
“(RE)PRESENTING RACE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM”
Free and Open to the Public
“Do the Right Thing”
(20th year anniversary)
Showing: September 17, 2009
7:15 - 10:15 p.m.
A201 (Theatre and Drama Center, Lee Norvelle/Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall Black Culture Center)
(Discussant: Byron Craig)
Plot: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Runtime: 120 minutes
“The Spook Who Sat by the Door”
Showing: October 8, 2009
7:15 - 10:15 p.m.
A201 (Theatre and Drama Center, Lee Norvelle/Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall Black Culture Center)
(Discussant: Dr. Michael T. Martin)
Plot: A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
“Nothing But a Man”
Showing: November 12, 2009
7:15 - 10:15 p.m.
A201 (Theatre and Drama Center, Lee Norvelle/Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall Black Culture Center)
(Discussant: Dr. Audrey T. McCluskey)
Plot: A devil-may-care young man is drawn to a grounded young woman. They part. He realizes he prefers stability to freedom. They reconcile. Runtime: 95 minutes
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