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L.A. Rebellion
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L.A. Rebellion
The L.A. Rebellion was a Black cinema movement led by African and African American filmmakers who studied at UCLA from the late-1960s to the late-1980s.
This guide was created in Fall 2020 by Library Student Research Assistant Stefanie Williams, an MLIS student in UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Content on oral histories and film & video provided by UCLA Film & Television Archive staff.
- The Story of L.A. RebellionShort history and related documents from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
- L.A. Rebellion FilmmakersBios and filmographies of the filmmakers from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
- Here’s the Camera. Go! (UCLA Newsroom, 6/14/2022)By Hugh Hart. "The L.A. Rebellion film movement, born at UCLA in 1969, enabled minority student directors — Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native American — to tell the world about their communities."
- L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema" is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.
Program from a film exhibition curated by UCLA Film & Television Archive that screened from Oct. 7 to Dec 17, 2011. - L.A. Rebellion: Film Movements In CinemaJune 10, 2020 article in Indie Film Hustle by Jim Henson.
- The LA Rebellion: When Black Film-makers Took on the World – and WonApril 9, 2015 article by Ashley Clark in The Guardian.
African American Studies Resources
- African American Experience This link opens in a new windowReference books, monographs, primary documents, manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, and statistics concerning African American history and culture. Contains over 4,000 interviews with former slaves; 67 Negro University Press texts from the late 1700s to the early 1970s.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowHistorical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases, including International Index to Black Periodicals, Black Literature Index and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience).
- Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowStreaming video access to documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes access to the African American Classics collection from California Newsreel.
- Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowFull text collection of non-fiction published prose and oratory by leading African Americans. Writing is focused on research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
- UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American StudiesIncludes library and programming information, as well as research reports from the Center.
- Umbra: Search African American History This link opens in a new windowFree digital platform that brings together primary source content from numerous cultural institutions documenting African American history and culture. Includes images, text, sound, video, and physical objects.
Related Research Guides
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- Public PolicyGovernment information, legislation, statistics