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The Rodney King Tape in Cinema Video Essay
201227 min 1 secFilm: Documentary
Script: Elysse Leonard
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A video essay that compares the use of the Rodney King beating tape in the films Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) and Dark Blue (Ron Shelton, 2002). How do these two films differ in their inclusion of the tape of the attack and what does mean for their representations of race in America, the representation of racial violence, and the cinematic history of representing black bodies?
Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Film and Video Making
- Media Education > Film and Video Production
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- writer
- Elysse Leonard
- editor
- Christopher Heron
- sound recording
- Brian Robertson
- narrator
- John Cohen