CANCELLATION NOTICE:

In order to minimize health and safety risks from COVID-19 to our patrons, the larger community, and Duke students, faculty, and staff, Duke University has adopted new policies on spring semester classes, residential life, travel, events, and campus visitors. (Find this update and the latest information on Duke’s Coronavirus response website.)
 
In keeping with the university’s directives, all public events at the Rubenstein Arts Center between March 10 and April 20, 2020 are CANCELED, including this event and all remaining Screen/Society screenings for the Spring 2020 semester.

(Check back in late summer on the Screen/Society website to see which canceled screenings will be rescheduled in the Fall 2020 semester.)

Film Screening and Discussion:

Inspired by the recently published collection of essays, Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, NCSU Film Studies Professor Marsha Gordon and Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks project a selection of short 16mm films from the 1960s and 1970s engaged with the topic of race. 
[Listen to NPR's "The State of Things" interview with co-editors Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon about the Screening Race book.]

From a student-made documentary about a young woman of color growing up in Los Angeles to a South Carolina educational short about intestinal parasites featuring a hilarious pair of frog and squirrel puppets, you’ll see how non-white subjects entered the American consciousness on small screens in classrooms, churches, and community centers.

Total film run time, 60 min.; introduction and discussion, 30 min.

Film to be screened:
Pamela Wong's Birthday for Grandma (1976, 9 min)
Felicia (1965, 13 min)
Minority Youth: Adam (1971, 10 min)
220 Blues (1970, 16 min)
Ro-Revus Talks About Worms (1971, 7 min)

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