White Screens/Black Images: A conversation about black film

This week, Tom Overton interviews Dr Clive James Nwonka (http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/Clive-Nwonka) about White Screen/Black Images - Nwonka's new course about black cinema at the London School of Economics (http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/courseGuides/SO/2018_SO4A9.htm). They also discuss issues of diversity (a peculiarly New Labour concept) against equality, the relationship between art, grime and cinema; highlights of the recent London Film Festival; and much more. SELECTED REFERENCES James Baldwin BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/18/blackkklansman-spike-lee-film-ku-klux-klan Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/04/blindspotting-review-carlos-lopez-estrada Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton, 1991) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/27/boyz-n-the-hood-review-blistering-humanitarian-classic-john-singleton Bullet Boy (dir. Saul Dibb, 2004) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1208336/index.html East Is East (dir. Damien O'Donnell, 1999) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166175/ Paul Gilroy Stuart Hall DAN HANCOX, Inner City Pressure (2018) - https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/grime-the-thatcherite-ideal-ft-dan-hancox/ If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk_(film) Buster Keaton Professor Sarita Malik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77dGnnF4VQ Steve McQueen (filmmaker): Hunger (2008); Shame (2011); 12 Years a Slave (2013); Widows (2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(director) KOBENA MERCER (ed.), Black Film British Cinema (1988) - https://issuu.com/icalondon/docs/blackfilmbritishcinema OLI MOULD, Against Creativity (2018) - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/against-creativity-an-interview-with-oli-mould Oasis (band) Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) - https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/tiff-film-review-roma/ Dr Anamik Saha Set It Off (dir. F. Gary Gray, 1996) - http://itsmadeinstone.com/arts-entertainment/2016/11/8/set-it-off-the-original-squad-goals James Snead - http://yamp.org/Profiles/JamesSnead So Solid Crew Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018) - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sorry-bother-you-director-boots-riley-blasts-foreign-distributors-refusing-carry-a-black-movie-1132252 The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/stuart-hall-project-john-akomfrah-interview 'That's All I Ask' (Nina Simone) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBbV0NPAx4 Ashley Walters - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910180/ Kanye West