Time Travel and Bodily Epistemology in Ava DuVernay’s Selma (FR/UK/US 2014) and Haile Gerima’s Sankofa (BF 1993)
This article explores the seminal films of two black filmmakers of different generations: Haile Gerima’s Sankofa (BF 1993) and Ava DuVernay’s Selma (FR/UK/US 2014). It suggests that in creating Selma, DuVernay uses time travel and “bodily epistemology” (Lisa Woolfork) as first deployed by Haile Geri...
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Journal for Religion, Film and Media |
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| Online Access: | https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:4-57587 |
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