Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles)
| Dates: | 14 March 2019 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students, General public |
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The 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report: Old Story, New Beginning
Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Professor Hunt has written extensively on race and media. He authored the last six instalments of the Hollywood Writers Report, released by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2016. His books include: Screening the Los Angeles "Riots:" Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge University Press. 1997); O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2005), editor; Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (NYU Press, 2010), editor with Ana-Christina Ramon. He has also worked as a media researcher for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ 1993 hearings on diversity in Hollywood. Dr. Hunt has been interviewed for dozens of television and radio programs on questions of media and race.
14th March 2019, 5:00—6.30pm, Roscoe Building,
Lecture Theatre B
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