The War of Naming the Problem: Black Audio Film Collective and Political Aesthetics

问题命名之战：黑人有声电影集体与政治美学

• 批准号: 2582932
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2582932
• 关键词: War; Naming; Problem; Black; Audio

his research aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on the seminal Black Audio Film Collective, the black British filmmaking collective active between the years 1982-1998. Their activity spans the consolidation of Thatcherism and New Labourism, a period which had deep consequences - material, intellectual, and aesthetic - for how we think about race, nation, and the arts in the UK today. They sought to respond to the transformations of UK society by studying social upheavals and cultural expression through film and documentary. A critical study of their oeuvre is vital to deepening our understanding of black arts and anti-racist struggle in the UK.While the BAFC is widely lauded, there is no book-length study of the collective. Most interpretative literature on the BAFC does not move beyond aesthetic interpretation to the broader social forces out of which it emerges. Equally, no critical works on the social history of the period take BAFC as their sustained object. This project seeks to overcome this binary by synthesizing these two levels of analysis, while concentrating in a novel way as much on the audio as on the film in their works.I ask what a close aesthetic reading of the BAFC works can tell us about the restructuring of British Capitalism in the '80s and '90s. Correspondingly, what a historical and theoretical reading of this restructuring can tell us about these works. This requires a two-fold object of study: first, the BAFC's rich archive of films, of which many remain unwatched; second, materialist and post-colonial readings of politics, culture, and society.Using these analytic tools, this project will contribute to the urgent and re-emerging field of British postcolonial and cultural studies, rendering new historical and aesthetic questions possible regarding a renowned yet understudied corpus.

他的研究旨在填补现有文献中关于开创性的黑色音频电影集体的空白，黑色音频电影集体是1982-1998年间活跃的英国黑人电影制作集体。他们的活动跨越了撒切尔主义和新工党主义的巩固，这一时期对我们今天在英国如何看待种族、民族和艺术产生了深刻的影响--物质、知识和美学。他们试图通过电影和纪录片研究社会动荡和文化表达来应对英国社会的转型。对他们的全部作品进行批判性研究，对于加深我们对英国黑人艺术和反种族主义斗争的理解至关重要。大多数关于英国电影与电视艺术学院的解释性文献并没有超越美学解释，而是从更广泛的社会力量中产生的。同样，也没有一部社会史批评著作以英国文学为对象。这个项目试图通过综合这两个层次的分析来克服这种二元性，同时以一种新颖的方式集中在他们作品中的音频和电影上。我问，对英国电影艺术学院作品的仔细美学阅读可以告诉我们关于80年代和90年代英国资本主义的重组。相应地，对这一重构的历史和理论阅读可以告诉我们关于这些作品的什么。这需要一个双重的研究对象：第一，英国电影学院丰富的电影档案，其中许多仍然没有被观看;第二，唯物主义和后殖民主义的政治，文化和社会的阅读。使用这些分析工具，这个项目将有助于英国后殖民和文化研究的紧迫和重新崛起的领域，提出新的历史和美学问题可能对一个著名的但研究不足的语料库。