Linda Williams on D.W. Griffiths and Blackface March 29
BURNT CORK: TRADITIONS AND LEGACIES OF BLACKFACE MINSTRELSY
MARCH 28-29, 2008
http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3minstr/conf_press.html
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Blackface on Film
Curated by Nicholas Sammond and Alice Maurice, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ (1999)
Screening with Dean Moss
3:15pm to 5:15pm
Introduction: Charlie Keil, Director, Cinema Studies Institute
Arthur Knight: American Studies, College of William & Mary in Virginia
‘Whiteface’
Linda Williams: Rhetoric and Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
‘Surprised by Blackface: D. W. Griffith, Blackface, and One Exciting Night’