August 21, 2022 – July 16, 2023

Regeneration:
Black Cinema 1898–1971

The rich history of Black participation in American cinema from its beginnings to just beyond the civil rights movement

Microsite

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The Regeneration microsite is the show's permanent digital home. In addition to original articles, essays, and curricular materials, the site offers introductory excerpts of the exhibition's print catalogue and an interactive database capturing the films, filmmakers, and production companies examined in the show.

Exhibition Catalogue

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The Regeneration exhibition catalogue amplifies the underrepresented history of Black film in colorful and striking detail. The book features an in-depth curatorial essay, scholarly case-studies, an extensive filmography and chronology, and interviews with award-winning contemporary Black filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins and Dawn Porter.

  • Film still from William Selig's Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown. Courtesy of USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive
  • The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather, 1943, from left, Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas. Photographic print, gelatin silver. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library, ©Twentieth Century Fox
  • Portrait of Josephine Baker. Photo by adoc--photos/Corbis via Getty Images
  • Carmen Jones costume design (Carmen, Change #1), Costume design: Mary Ann Nyberg, c. 1954, courtesy Cinémathèque Française
  • Photo of Melvin Van Peebles, 1971. Photo by Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
Film still from William Selig's Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown. Courtesy of USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

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