Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Voices & Visions in Black Media: A Book Talk by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, on Tuesday, April 29, at 5:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Smith-Shomade will be discussing her book Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture. Moderated by PMA Chair Samantha N. Sheppard.
In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are foundational and central to Black popular culture. She takes readers on a journey to think more fully about the necessity, viability, pervasiveness and intransigence of Black spirituality and religion within Black mediated forms.
BERETTA E. SMITH-SHOMADE is a professor in film and media at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the author of Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Pimpin' Ain't Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television (Routledge 2007). She has also edited two anthologies: Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2013) – a Choice Outstanding Academic Title – and its remix, Watching While Black Rebooted! The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Voices & Visions in Black Media surveys the diverse landscape of Black media practices and scholarship, engaging and critically exploring the world of blackness on screen and/or behind the camera and features leading scholars in cinema and media studies.
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