A Movie-Struck Kid From Detroit
Going Deeper into Movies
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From: Thinking While Black
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In this chapter the author examined the revolutionary ideas and culture of 1960’s Detroit through Armond White’s reviews of various media (film, theatre, music, and literature) between 1972 and 1997. Specific topics discussed in the chapter include class consciousness, Marxism-Leninism, black culture, black creatives, the black experience, film culture, and film theory.
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Daniel McNeil
DANIEL MCNEIL is a professor in the department of gender studies at Queen’s University and the Queen’s national scholar chair in Black studies. His scholarship and teaching in Black Atlantic studies explore how movement, travel, and relocation have transformed and boosted creative development, the writing of cultural history, and the calculation of political choices. He is the author of Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic and, with Yana Meerzon and David Dean, a co-editor of Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. He lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.