[Englecturers] Erica Edwards this Thursday at the CMP

[Traise Yamamoto]

Just wanted to remind everyone  that this Thursday, 17 January, at  
6:00 p.m., Erica Edwards will be introducing the 30th anniversary  
showing of Charles Burnett's film, Killer of Sheep, at the California  
Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside.  Please see below for  
details.




  RIVERSIDE – Charles Burnett’s KILLER OF SHEEP examines the black Los  
Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a  
sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic  
toll of working at a slaughterhouse.  Frustrated by money problems, he  
finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup  
against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room,  
holding his daughter.

    KILLER OF SHEEP was shot on location in Watts in a series of  
weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant  
money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew  
and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film  
Festival. Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a  
national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film  
Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one  
of the "100 Essential Films" of all time.

    The California Museum of Photography presents screenings of KILLER  
OF SHEEP throughout January, with a special introduction to the film  
by Erica Edwards, professor of English at UC Riverside and jill moniz,  
Visual Arts Program Manager at the California African-American Museum,  
on Thursday, January 17th at 6:00pm. Additional screenings take place  
on Thursday January 3rd and 31st at 6:00pm. Admission to the museum is  
free on these nights. For information, contact the Education  
Department at (951) 827-4796 or check the website  
(www.artsblock.ucr.edu <http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu> ).


Traise Yamamoto
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
951.827.1789
951.827.3967 (fax)




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