Two Engaging Lectures by Professor, Filmmaker,
JESSE RHINES, Ph. D. Author, BLACK FILM/WHITE MONEY
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1) Black Film and Black Power
Delight in Rhines' portrayal of African Americans on and behind the silver screen. Learn the historic contributions African American men and women have made to the motion picture industry since 1915.
Rhines, who has worked behind the camera himself, reflects on independent filmmaking, the risks of both failure and success, and his hope for positive change if more African-American filmmakers can gain influence in the film industry. Many well-known directors, including Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, and Grace Blake are interviewed in the book, allowing Rhines to give readers an inside look at how deal making does - or does not - work.
2) African Americans' Role in America's Multi-Ethnic Future
From Black author Francis Harper's 19th century Iola Leroy to Gene Roddenbery's Star Trek to Russell Simmons' 2001 Hip Hop Summit voter registration drive, Rhines' BLACK UTOPIA MONOGRAPH analyzes the way Blacks have been imagined in America's future from 1885 through 2001. Learn about this first comprehensive, comparative look at the designs both Black and non-Black utopian creators have had for the future of a multi-cultural America.
Hear how one actor, hip hop mogul, Russell Simmons, has begun to design and create a path towards America's multi-cultural future. As Civil Rights era successes prove unable to improve the conditions of a growing, deepening Black underclass, America has abandoned race as a means to improve ghetto living conditions.
SAMPLE VENUES DELIVERED
- FILM, GRADUATION, RACIAL IDENTITY AND BLACK UTOPIA
William And Mary College, 9/7/02
- ACTOR AS FILMMAKER,
Bill Duke's Actor's Bootcamp, American Black Film Festival, Miami FL, 6/28/02
- BLACK BEAUTY AND HOLLYWOOD,
Black Students Union, Franklin and Marshal College, 3/9/02
- WHY CAN'T HOLLYWOOD DO THE RIGHT THING?
Albion College, University of Northern Iowa, 9/99.
- THE FUTURE FOR BLACKS IN HOLLYWOOD, Black Business Expo, Los Angeles 5/3/98.
- BILL COSBY SCREENWRITING PROGRAM, USC, 4/2798.
- BLACK FILM, BLACK BUSINESS, Links, Inc. of Bergen County, NJ, April 4, 1998.
- BLACK AMERICAN FILM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Lincoln Center Film Society, NYC 9/1996.
- THE STRUCTURAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RACE IN HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKING, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2/2/95
- MICHEAUX' BOURGEOIS NATIONALISM
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, 3/20/994