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Media studies professor Phil Duncan directed, shot and produced Mississippi Mud: A Natural History of the Blues during several trips to the Mississippi Delta.
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Co-professors Eric Wesselmann and Stanford Carpenter's honors seminar on Black horror films was well-received by students and the public. The Normal Theater pressed them to mix up a new course focused on 1970s blaxploitation films.
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The long weekend has more than turkey in store for folks clamming to get out there.
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ISU professor John McHale and registered nurse Xavier Jackson wrote a feature-length film inspired by Jackson's experiences in rural health care from 2020-2021.
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Saturday is the final day for Rader Family Farms' B.Y.O.Flashlight night maze.
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Scholars Stanford Carpenter and Eric Wesselmann co-teach a course on horror films with Black protagonists, villains and anti-heroes. Carpenter helped coin the term EthnoGothic to capture how different people respond to horror based on race, culture and social identity.
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The Green Screen Film Series continues at the Normal Theater on Tuesday with "The Human Scale," a documentary about how developing mega-cities change human behavior.
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Heartland Community College marks Lesbian Visibility Week with queer indie films by Catherine CrouchVeteran indie filmmaker Catherine Crouch comes to Heartland Community College for a Lesbian Visibility Week public screening and dialog about five short films. For two decades, Crouch has written, directed and produced films from a distinctly lesbian perspective.
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About 50 people viewed the documentary film “The Central Park Five” on Wednesday in Braden Auditorium on Illinois State University's campus. The screening was part of a weeklong series of events hosted by ISU celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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A film screening Tuesday evening at the Normal Theater highlights stories of women making a difference in the fight against global climate change.