https://marist.kanopy.com/video/black-panthers-0
There are 2 major aspects that I chose to explore while in college aside from my major in Business: Human Resources. Those are the history of race in america and anything that falls under beauty (especially cosmetology). I was thrilled to see The Black Panthers on the list of media to chose from. Coincidentally, I had already seen this film during a course I had seen at Marist, The Black Freedom Struggle in America. However, then I was seeing the film from the eye of a historian and inquisitive student looking to piece the story together about race in America. Now, while my old perspective still applies… I got the chance to watch the film from a media perspective. The quality back then really wasn’t so bad although there is a major difference from the quality we see now and the quality we know of from older films. Furthermore, the transitions between the film of the time frame of the black panthers and the people speaking in 2015 are too much of then and now. I feel like this could have been executed better to tell me more of a story. After watching the film, I saw a comment by a woman named Ana that said that the film, “Throws the visionary, Huey under the bus. Tips a bit too far over into style vs. substance.” When I read the part about more style vs. substance in relation to the film, this was my reaction š® I felt like there was a perfect balance of both and that only the transitioning threw me off. Then I began to think about how I actually studied the story of The Black Panthers and maybe that creates a bit a of bias in how I’m viewing the media aspects of the film. Despite this overall, I think the film is presented effectively and bring film from the past into the present to utilize the modern aspects we see in media today.
The Em Experience 