View the film Through a Lens Darkly (https://miamioh.kanopy.com/video/through-lens-darkly), Black
Photographers and the Emergence of a People, By Thomas Allen Harris
Upon completing the film you can complete the Film Response M7: Through a Lens Darkly assignment
Answer questions in a thoughtful, clear, and complete manner by writing several full sentences and
including specific examples in your responses. You are encouraged to make connections to previous
assignments, other courses, and your own life experience. Please use the same numbering system and
include the questions in your document.
Do not use direct quotations. It is essential that you learn to paraphrase or summarize. You will be expected
to use MLA in-text citations and Works Cited at the end of each assignment for the primary source article
and any other articles or websites you used to develop your response. Italicize works of art, just as you
would like books and film.
After watching the film Through a Lens Darkly please respond to the following questions in a thoughtful and
developed manner.
- The film uses the family photo album as an organizing framework. How successful is this technique?
Discuss at least two examples of the use of the family photo album in the film. Does this make you
reconsider the private family album as historical record? How does new technology connect to the family
album? - Explore the theme of “invisibility” as portrayed in the film. How is this connected to the use and theme of
the family album? How does this connect in a larger cultural sense? - In the film, there is a quote by James Baldwin that states that black people are fighting “a war of images
in the American family album”. What does this mean in the context of the film? What does it mean in the
larger cultural context of representation in America? - Photographs can be both a progressive and regressive practice. Consider this in the context of the film
as visual representation, confronting visual representation.
Preferred language style Simple (Easy vocabulary, simple grammar constructions)
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