{"id":187,"date":"2018-03-11T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/?p=187"},"modified":"2018-03-11T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:08:13","slug":"the-la-rebellion-intellectually-inorganic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/third-blog\/the-la-rebellion-intellectually-inorganic\/","title":{"rendered":"The LA Rebellion: Intellectually Inorganic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1960s, a group of African American students at UCLA created a collective of films, unlike most had seen before, which would be coined as the LA Rebellion. With sporadic plots and symbolism, the L.A. Rebellion featured films such as <\/span>Killer of Sheep<\/span><\/i> by Charles Burnett that utilized neorealist influences and jazz music. With the cinematic arena being whitewashed, the L.A. Rebellion was as a vessel for change in the movie industry. The films contributed to the depathologization of black music, the deepening of a positive societal image of blackness, and as opposition to a epidermalized cinematic industry. The L.A. Rebellion combatted hegemonic holds that white actors and white movies had on cinematic arena. <\/span>In some respects, the L.A. Rebellion was more of a reformist movement than a revolution because of the fact that the film collective did not look to desolate the entire industry but rather expose and thus uplift film from dishonest, negative black representation. The students created an awareness to the way film represents black culture which has since helped to create a more racially accepting industry. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, even through their efforts we can see black films like <\/span>Boyz n The Hood <\/span><\/i>still being the standard for popular black film in the U.S. It is not until recently that we see films such as <\/span>Black Panther <\/span><\/i>and A <\/span>Wrinkle in Time <\/span><\/i>that feature consistently positive and honest black representation. Looking at the movement through Gramsci\u2019s lense it is clear that the L.A. Rebellion was lacking a <\/span>organic intellectual. <\/span><\/i>Sure they could make all the revolutionary films they wanted, but without a vessel in which to bridge the elitist, white cinematic community to the L.A. Rebellion filmmakers and their \u201cradical\u201d works, they effectively preach to the choir. Once cannot force another to watch a film let alone appreciate its message, especially if that message is politicized and racialized. Gramsci would argue that the L.A. Rebellion could have be far more effective for black cinema if it had an OI. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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