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Time Travel and Bodily Epistemology in Ava Duvernay’s SELMA (FR/UK/US 2014) and Haile Gerima’s SANKOFA (BF 1993)

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dc.creatorNoah, Temitope Abisoye
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T15:15:51Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T15:15:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis 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 Gerima in his 1993 film to offer 21st century viewers glimpses of the African American slave past. DuVernay’s regressions in time are particularly bound up with those of Gerima in her film’s most talked about scene: “Bloody Sunday”. Several critics denounced the grotesque violence of “Bloody Sunday”, failing to recognize that DuVernay crafts the episode to evoke the past in a new way. Her innovative way of transcending the art of the time-travel narrative is influenced by several of her predecessors, including Gerima.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.10:2024.2.6
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23510
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/405
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25325
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectBloody Sundayen
dc.subjectBlack Filmen
dc.subjectTime Travelen
dc.subjectSlaveryen
dc.subjectCivil Rights Movementen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personAva DuVernay
dc.subject.personHaile Gerima
dc.subject.workSANKOFA
dc.subject.workSELMA
dc.titleTime Travel and Bodily Epistemology in Ava Duvernay’s SELMA (FR/UK/US 2014) and Haile Gerima’s SANKOFA (BF 1993)en
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local.coverpage2025-01-25T02:46:09
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/405
local.source.epage102
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage87
local.source.volume10
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local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7418735
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