Ed Guerrero Explained

Ed Guerrero
Alma Mater:	San Francisco State University San Francisco Art Institute University of California, Berkeley
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Notable Works:	Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Culture And The Moving Image)
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Years Active:	1979-present

Ed Guerrero is an American film historian and associate professor of cinema studies and Africana studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.^[1] His writings explore black cinema, culture, and critical discourse. He has written extensively on black cinema, its movies, politics and culture for anthologies and journals such as Sight & Sound, FilmQuarterly, Cineaste, Journal of Popular Film & Television, and Discourse.^[2] Guerrero has served on editorial and professional boards including The Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board.^[3]

Education and career

In 1972, Guerrero earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking & Aesthetics from San Francisco Art Institute. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He was valedictorian.^[4]

He has served on the National Film Preservation Board since 1988.^[5]

Works

Exhibitions

• 1998: "Paul Robeson: Star of Stage and Screen,” curated for the Rutgers Paul Robeson Centennial Project, retrospective at the UCLA Film & Television Archives (with Charles Musser, Mark Reid).^[6]
• 1999: "Borderlines: Paul Robeson and Film,” curated for MoMA (with Charles Musser).^[7]

Filmography

• Director . 1979 . Angela Davis: Walls into Bridges . documentary . PBS .

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Do the Right Thing. 9781838719883. London: British Film Institute, Modern Classics. 2001.
• Book: Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Culture And The Moving Image). Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1993 . 1566391253. 10.2307/j.ctvrdf2mb.

Essays

• Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. The Slavery Motif in Recent Popular Cinema. February 1988.
• Tracking "The Look" in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Black American Literature Forum. 24. 4 . 761–773. African American Review: St. Louis University. Women Writers Issue. Winter, 1990. 10.2307/3041801 . 3041801. Guerrero. Edward. 1990.
• Black Film: Mo' Better in the '90s. Black Camera. 6. 1. 1991 . 27761425. Indiana University Press . Guerrero . Ed . 2–3 .
• Negotiations of Ideology, Manhood, and Family in Billy Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts. Black American Literature Forum. 25. 2 . 1991 . 10.2307/3041689. 3041689. Guerrero. Edward. 315–322.
• Book: The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties . Black American Cinema . Manthia Diawara ed. Routledge 1993 . 9780203873304.
• The Black Man on Our Screens and the Empty Space in Representation . Callaloo. 1995 . Johns Hopkins University Press Spring 1995. 18. 2 . 395–400 . 10.1353/cal.1995.0054. Guerrero . Ed . 162202542 .
• Book: Black Stars in Exile: Paul Robeson, O.J. Simpson, and Othello. Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. Jeffrey C. Stewart ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
• Book: Circus of Dreams & Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age. The New American Cinema. 1998 . Jon Lewis ed. Durham, Duke University Press 1998. 9780822321156.
• Sight & Sound. Be Black And Buy. December 2000. 33–37. https://web.archive.org/web/20220517092345/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/442 . May 17, 2022 .
• Book: Black Violence as Cinema: From Cheap Thrills to Historical Agonies. Violence and American Cinema . J. David Slocum ed. New York: Routledge, "AFI Film Series" 2001.
• Web site: POV. "Point of View: Watching Wattstax . PBS . American Documentary Inc. (blog). January 17, 2004 .
• Book: Bamboozled: In the Mirror of Abjection. Contemporary Black American Cinema : Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies. Mia Mask ed. New York: Routledge, "AFI Film Series" 2008. 9780203118146 .
• Book: Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle. The Spike Lee Reader. 2007 . 9781592134847. Paula Massood Ed. Temple University Press 2008.
• Book: The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation. 2011. 10.1002/9780470671153.wbhaf063. The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film. Guerrero . Ed . 9781405179843 .
• Book: Cinematic Sociology : Social Life in Film. . Jean-Anne Sutherland, Kathryn Feltey, eds. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications. Race & Ethnicity : The Spectacle of Black Violence as Cinema . 2013. 978-1412992848. 782128041 .

In media

• Baadasssss Cinema: A Bold Look at 70's Blaxploitation Films (commentary).^[8]
• In conversation with fellow international film scholars Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Shelleen Greene, and African-American, Afro-Latino and Afro-Italian actors in Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (2016).^[9]
• Blaxploitation to Hip Hop, in which hip-hop artists "discuss the influence of blaxploitation films to the genre." (commentary)^[10]
• In discussion with filmmakers and historians about in Kevin Willmott's in C.S.A.' Roundtable.'^[11]
• Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door (commentary)^[12]
• Pam Grier Super Foxy, in which "artists describe the influence Pam Grier and her films have left in their music, art, and discuss her impact on culture in general." (commentary)^[13]
• Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, a film that "explores how African American communities have used the camera as a tool for social change from the invention of photography to the present." (commentary)^[14]

Recognition

• 1979 Rockefeller Production/Post-Production Grant, PBS^[4]
• 1988 U.C. Santa Barbara Dissertation Fellowship^[4]
• 1993-1994 Rockefeller Fellowship Program, in residence at University of Pennsylvania^[4]
• 1994 Honorable Mention, Theatre Library Association Award: Ed Guerrero. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Temple University Press, 1993.^[15]
• 1997 National Film Preservation Board appointment to the Society for Cinema Studies^[16]
• US Department of State “Speaker Specialist” Grants: Serbia-Montenegro; Swaziland, S.A.; Norway & Denmark; Cape Town, S.A.^[4]

Cited in

• Book: Baker . Aaron. Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film. United States, University of Illinois Press . 9780252028168. 2003.
• Book: Cashmore . Ellis . Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama's America. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2012. 10.5040/9781780931500. 9781780931500 .
• Book: Dyson. Omari L.. Judson . L. Jeffries, Ph.D . Kevin L. . Brooks. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 Volumes]. ABC-CLIO. 2020. 978-1440862441.
• Book: Entman . Robert M. . Rojecki . Andrew . The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press . 9780226210773 . February 15, 2010.
• Book: Gates . Philippa. 9780813589435. Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film. Rutgers University Press. March 8, 2019.
• Book: Hayward. Susan. Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts . Routledge Key Guides 5th ed. Routledge. 2017. 978-1138665774.
• Harris . Travis . Vulgar Voice. Journal of Hip Hop Studies. 4 . 1 . 2017. 2331-5563. Daniel White Hodge ed. VCU Scholars Compass.
• Book: Charles . Musser . Jane Marie. Gaines. Pearl . Bowser. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era . United States: Indiana University Press. March 28, 2016. 978-0253021557.
• Racialized Representations of Black Actresses: Power, Position, and Politics of the Mediated Black Woman. The Popular Culture Studies Journal - A:JPAS Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. 8. 2. September 2020. CarrieLynn D. . Reinhard. Nurse . Angela . Winge . Theresa M..
• Book: Sexton. Jared . Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing. Springer. 2017. 9783319661704.

Notes and References

1. Web site: NYU Tisch. Ed Guerrero. July 7, 2022 .
2. Web site: Contributors to The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film . Wiley Online Library .
3. Web site: Brochure: Black Portraiture[s]

   The Black body in the west. Paris, 17–20 January 2013]

   . NYU Paris ::: La Recherche.
4. Web site: NYU Arts & Sciences : Professor Ed Guerrero.. July 7, 2022.
5. Web site: National Film Preservation Board Members 1988-2021. Library of Congress. National Film Preservation Board. 5.
6. Book: Mia Mask . 978-1136308024. Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. August 21, 2012.
7. News: Hoberman . J.. Film Archives: Borderlines: Paul Robeson and Film. The Village Voice. June 22, 1999.
8. IMDb . Baadasssss Cinema. 2002. Isaac Julien (director) . Television movie documentary.
9. Web site: Cinema : Blaxploitalian: Black Italians Have a Story to Tell. The JyOba! Project . December 2011 . July 7, 2022.
10. video documentary short . Blaxploitation to Hip Hop. 2006 . IMDb.
11. short . IMDb. 'C.S.A.' Roundtable. 2006.
12. documentary short . IMDb. Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door. Christine Acham, Clifford Ward (directors). 2011.
13. documentary short . IMDb. Pam Grier Super Foxy. 2006.
14. documentary . Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. 2014 . IMDb. Thomas Allen Harris (director).
15. Web site: Association, Theatre Library. Wall Award Winners, 1974-Present.. Theatre Library Association (blog) . September 24, 2021 .
16. Web site: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. . National Film Board Appointments Announced. July 7, 2022 . Craig . D'Ooge.