Filmmaker and Cu Boulder Film Professor Skinner Myers is in the middle of writing the long proposal for his dissertation, which will offer “a way of fighting Hollywood from one’s own cultural perspective.” Breaking from First, Second, Third and Fourth cinemas, his “Antagonistic Cinema Theory” eschews a numbered designation. In his feature debut, The Sleeping Negro, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, Myers pays respect to the Third and Fourth Cinema filmmakers who laid a path for him to stride—his dissertation records his own footsteps along the way. […]
The post “Making Black Cinema ‘Palatable’ Does Zero”: Skinner Myers on The Sleeping Negro first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Making Black Cinema ‘Palatable’ Does Zero”: Skinner Myers on The Sleeping Negro first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/8/2021
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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