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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 7:15pm to 8:34pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Central Campus
1920 > USA > Directed by Oscar Michaux With Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin Released only months after the deadly 1919 race riots in Chicago, pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Michaux's dramatic tale of rape, lynchings, and the devastated lives of poor sharecroppers caused national controversy. The story concerns Sylvia Landry, a young southern woman with a dramatic past, who has come to Chicago to meet with her fiancŽe. Perhaps because of its limited initial release, the film was believed lost for most of the 20th Century. A single print, entitled "La Negra" was discovered in Spain in 1990, and it is from that copy that this film, historically important as a document of the lives of black Americans, a searing critique of race relations in the integrated South, and a foundational work of black filmmaking, has been restored. Print preserved by the Library of Congress. Cosponsored with the Dept. of PMA and the Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group. 1 hr 19 min
Cornell Cinema, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Management Library
$8.50 general admission/$6.50 seniors/$6 CU graduate students/$5.50 students and kids 12 & under
Teresa Alvis
607-255-3522
Asst. Prof. Samantha Sheppard
PMA
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