A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
This chapter discusses Burnett as a major African American director whose entire career has been devoted to the proposition that black lives matter, and it argues that his work deserves to be more widely known. It describes the aims and methods of the book and explains the term symbolic knowledge, which is Burnett’s way of describing a moral and social education gained from storytelling.
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, independent film, historical knowledge, moral knowledge, film criticism, children, country versus city
California Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
