A Word: Lights, Camera, Revolution

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Decades before Moonlight, Black Panther, or anything from Spike Lee, Black film artists worked through and around the studio system to bring their visions to the big screen. Now the Black Film Archive has brought together classics from 1915 to 1979. Its creator Maya Cade joins Jason Johnson on A Word to talk about the importance of African Americans connecting with movies from the past. Guest: Maya Cade, creator of Black Film Archive and audience development specialist for the Criterion Collection Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate of your host, Jason Johnson.
0:08.0	Decades before Moonlight, Black Panther, or anything from Spike Lee,
0:12.3	Black filmmakers were telling African American stories without money or fanfare,
0:17.6	but with honesty and love.
0:20.4	Now, you can find the best of these movies in the Black Film Archive.
0:24.4	Thanks to its creator, Maya Kaye.
0:26.4	We are not a monolith.
0:28.9	Blackness is not a monolith.
0:30.4	I think there are so many ways that we've been represented across time.
0:34.3	The Black Film Archive coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.
0:38.6	Stay with us.
0:44.0	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.
0:48.4	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:49.8	It's the holiday season and it's cuffing season.
0:52.4	That means it's time when lots of us are huddled on couches with friends,
0:55.8	family, and people we love and people we want to love us.
0:58.9	And we're watching movies.
1:00.7	Many Black Film Lovers see this as a golden age for African American creators,
1:05.0	with plenty of blockbusters, indies, and even horror stories you choose from.
1:09.7	But our guest says that there are hundreds of great Black films from the past waiting to be rediscovered.
1:16.6	Movies like Anna Lukosta, a 1958 drama,
1:20.8	starring Eartha Kid and Sammy Davis Jr. as Star Cross Lovers.
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