Humanities Homework Help

Before you start answer the Question, please watch these first.

• Reading : Toni Cade Bambara, “Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye: Daughters of the Dust and the Black Independent Cinema Movement” in Black American Cinema 118-145
• Reading: “Conversations with Ava DuVernay–“A Call to Action”: Organizing Principles of an Activist Cinematic Practice,”in Black Camera, pp. 57-70
• Screening: Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash

1. Using the reading, lecture videos, and, most importantly, the film screening, construct an argument about how Julie Dash’s film, Daughters of the Dust, challenges traditional Hollywood filmmaking. How is this film such a dynamic alternative from mainstream film and the dominant white/Western perspective? Please use specific evidence from the film (a scene or two, a stylistic element, etc.) to construct your argument. Also, please mention at least one other film from this quarter in your answer. （For those film，you can refer

Ethnic Notions, 1987 Marlon Riggs

Classified X, 1998 Mark Daniels

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song , 1971 Melvin Van Peebles

Baaadasssss Cinema, 2003 Issac Julien

Shaft, 1971 Gordan Parks

The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee and Ivan Dixon, 1973

Bush Mama , 1976 Haile Gerima)

No more than 300 words.