16 + GUIDE - British Film Institute
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THE TIMES<br />
18 th March 1991, p. 8<br />
U.S. film stirs up black culture of death, by Charles Bremner<br />
What is interesting about this article is that it appears to follow an almost generic way of<br />
reporting black on black gang violence in America. Without any first hand contact with any of<br />
the cast or crew from the film, Bremner's article seems to stand well back and survey the<br />
wreckage and only some of its causes. However it is a useful example of the media in<br />
Britain's moral panic concerning all things black and foreign during this period.<br />
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) Dir. Matty Rich<br />
Journal Articles<br />
THIRD TEXT<br />
no.34. Spring 1996, pp.3-14<br />
'Searing portraits': the persistence of realism in black urban cinema, by Elizabeth<br />
Mermin<br />
A very well written and informative article that examines the cinematic strategies of the<br />
nineties black urban cinema and the way these films use expectations of cinematic realism<br />
and thus, created a genre.<br />
Mermin looks at two films, Charles Burnett's, KILLER OF SHEEP (1977) and Matty Rich's,<br />
STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN. Whilst discussing Rich's film, Mermin makes the point that in<br />
the nineties the ghetto films leapt into Hollywood as a hybrid between pseudo-documentary<br />
and gangster film. This fusion, Mermin argues, is integral to the nineties 'hood movie' genre.<br />
BLACK FILM REVIEW<br />
vol.6 no. 4. 1991, pp. 24-25<br />
Straight up and out, by Olive Vassell<br />
Article that looks at how 19 year-old director Matty Rich, despite no formal training, defied the<br />
odds to complete his first feature.<br />
Juice (1992) Dir. Ernest Dickerson<br />
Press Articles<br />
DAILY MAIL<br />
22 nd March 1994, pp. 14-15<br />
Laughing killers fuelled by Juice, by Chris Brooke<br />
A sensationalist article that was written after the murder of 44 year-old father of three, Les<br />
Reed. The report claims that the four youths convicted of Mr Reeds murder were 'under the<br />
influence" of the "video nasty" entitled JUICE. Dickerson’s film is compared to the film CHILDS<br />
PLAY, in another case where a video/ film was held up as influencing a murder. This article<br />
could be useful for research into moral panics in Britain.<br />
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