On Blackness, Cinema, and the Moving Image: A KCL Symposium

This symposium, co-hosted with King’s College London Department of Film Studies, brings world-leading scholars and practitioners together to share insights into the history of black cinema, black politics and black stardom. Through illuminating presentations and lively discussion, we will consider the historical evolution of the black movie star, while also examining “blackness” in visual culture, and the aesthetics and politics of black stardom. We’ll also examine strategies of resistance in black cinema, that stretch from the earliest activist actors through to today’s most vocal proponents of the Black Lives Matter movement.