WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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In this repeat from March 13, 2018, we’re joined by noted film scholar, Jim Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge; Michael Martin, editor-in-chief of Black Camera: an International Film Journal, and professor in the Media School at Indiana University, who values Burnett as an artist who shows the banality of oppression; Jacqueline Stewart, author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago; and Jonathan Rosenbaum, long-time film critic for the Chicago Reader, now retired, whose latest books are both collections — a two-volume work called Cinematic Encounters that appeared in November 2018 and June 2019. Volume one consists of interviews and dialogues, and volume two is subtitled Portraits and Polemics (University of Illinois Press); and, finally, we speak with the artist himself, Charles Burnett.
Films discussed:
“The Horse”
“Killer of Sheep”
“Glass Shield”
“When It Rains”
MUSIC
Our music is from John Handy’s Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, released in 1966. 
Its three tracks run underneath the whole program with the exception of a bit of conversation with Burnett regarding Paul Robeson, for which we used Robeson’s “The House I Live In.”
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The Troublesome Films of Charles Burnett – Interview with James Naremore
Burnett’s Governors Award acceptance speech
Ava DuVernay honors Charles Burnett at the 2017 Governors Awards
Milestone: Killer of Sheep
CREDITS
Producer & Host: Doug Storm
Executive Producer: Kade Young
