Muncie Reporter

Dewey Divers Mini Book Club "Colorization" (Adults) In-Person

Dewey Divers is a 4-month nonfiction mini book club open to all adults who want to learn something new!

Meetings take place at 7pm in Kennedy Library's Meeting Room at the following address:

1700 W. McGalliard Rd. Muncie, IN 47304

2023 Schedule:

•    January 26 - Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang, M.D. and Nate Pedersen

•    February 23 - Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood

•    March 23 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

•    April 20 - A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

A synopsis of this month's book, from the publisher:

This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther—using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown.

Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood’s first blockbuster—Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes.

He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. J. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves—including Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, Porgy and Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the seventies, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others.

 

An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.

Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023

Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Time Zone: Eastern Time - US & Canada

Location: KB - Meeting Room

Branch: Kennedy Library

Audience: Adults  

Categories: Adult Program  

Original source can be found here.