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Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971 Curriculum Guide

Updated Dec 8, 2023

Educators Grades Ninth – Twelfth History Social Studies Writing Special Exhibition

This Curriculum Guide was created by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to support the special exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971, on view at the DIA February 4–June 23, 2024. Containing five standalone modules, this robust set of lessons and activities provides students with historical context and the film studies terms needed for critical thinking and discourse to prepare for a visit to the exhibition. High School teachers of history, social studies, film studies, visual art, and ELA can use this inquiry-based learning resource to explore historic and contemporary issues around race, gender, discrimination, power, and activism.

Explore the resource online or download below

 

Image: Glenn Ligon, Double America 2, 2014. ©Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Chantal Crousel, Paris

Glenn Ligon, Double America 2, 2014. ©Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Chantal Crousel, Paris

This Curriculum Guide was created by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to support the special exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971, on view at the DIA February 4–June 23, 2024. Containing five standalone modules, this robust set of lessons and activities provides students with historical context and the film studies terms needed for critical thinking and discourse to prepare for a visit to the exhibition. High School teachers of history, social studies, film studies, visual art, and ELA can use this inquiry-based learning resource to explore historic and contemporary issues around race, gender, discrimination, power, and activism.

Explore the resource online or download below

 

Image: Glenn Ligon, Double America 2, 2014. ©Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Chantal Crousel, Paris

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Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 Curriculum Guide

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