Join Dr. Delphine Letort (author of The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking [2015] and Associate Professor in English at the University of Le Mans), Dr. Eliane Elmaleh (Professor of American Culture at the University of Le Mans), Dr. Charles Nero (Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies at Bates College), and Dr. Michael Johnson (Professor of English at UMF) for an exciting day-long examination of BLACKkKLANSMAN, the cinema of Spike Lee, and Black filmmaking co-sponsored by the New Commons Project and Global Education.

9:30 am: Welcome

10:00 am: CHARLES NERO, “STAY WOKE: SPIKE LEE TAKES ON THE INTERRACIAL BUDDY COP FILM”

 

February 9 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Education Center, room 103

University  of Maine at Farmington

186 High Street

Farmington, ME 04938