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The James Naremore Lecture with
Jacqueline Stewart
Friday - October 26 - 4:00 p.m.
Indiana University's Department of Communication and
Culture presents the James Naremore Lecture, which is
dedicated to continuing the tradition of scholarly excellence,
and honoring the similar breadth and depth in the work
of other pre-eminent scholars in the field of media stud-
ies. James O. Naremore is Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
in Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative
Literature at Indiana University. He has received numerous
academic honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and
the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, and his seven
books and numerous articles cover impressive theoretical and
critical ground. He was also instrumental in bringing film
and media studies into the newly reconfigured Department of
Communication and Culture, as well as the justification and
planning of the IU Cinema.
Jacqueline Stewart
Jacqueline Stewart is Associate Professor
of Radio/Television/Film and African
American Studies at Northwestern
University. Her research and teaching
focus on African American film, literature
and culture, moving image spectatorship
and exhibition, and the role of race in
"orphan" media in need of preservation.
Stewart is the author of "Migrating to
the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban
Modernity", as well as several essays.
She is co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion Preservation Project
at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and is currently
researching the history of Black moving image preservation,
and completing a study of the life and work of African
American filmmaker Spencer Williams.
Blood of Jesus
(1941) Directed by Spencer Williams
Thursday - October 25 - 7:00 p.m.
As the first race film added to the Library of Congress'
National Film Registry, The Blood of Jesus spins a tale
of temptation that continues to fascinate viewers. A non-
Christian husband accidentally shoots his devout Baptist
wife, which leads to her eventual death. Upon death, she
is visited by an angel that takes her to the `crossroads'
between Heaven and Hell. There she is met with agents of
both temptation and good, vying for her soul. In the surreal
juke-joints of the city, she must determine her fate, before
it's too late. Spencer Williams was a little-known filmmaker
who enjoyed the rare privilege of being able to write, direct,
produce, and star in his own films. Special thanks to Jones
Film and Video Collection, Hamon Arts Library, Southern
Methodist University and Amy Turner. (35mm. 57 min. Not
Rated.)
These events are co-sponsored by the Black Film
Center/Archive.
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