Charles Nero – Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

PMA Films Presents “Connection and Collaboration” with Professor Charles Nero

Liz Coyer — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:37:00 +0000

In partnership with Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies and Africana at �ֲ��ý College, PMA Films is excited to announce a new annual film series, “Connection and Collaboration.”

Charles Nero: This Spike Lee film is an ‘awesome takedown’ of the interracial buddy film genre

Jay Burns — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:16:00 +0000

The recipient of the 2021 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, Nero delivered his wide-ranging insights into the popularity and problems of interracial buddy films during a recent �ֲ��ý talk, culminating with an analysis of why Spike Lee’s 2018 BlacKKKlansman is an “awesome and subversive takedown” of the genre.

Charles Nero and Stephanie Kelley-Romano, faculty speakers at Opening Convocation

�ֲ��ý College — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:59:28 +0000

The Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Charles I. Nero & Associate Professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano will deliver the Opening Convocation welcoming the 2024 class to �ֲ��ý.

SYMPOSIUM ON BLACKkKLANSMAN with Dr. Charles Nero

Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:58:34 +0000

Join Dr. Delphine Letort (author of The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking [2015] and Associate Professor in English at the University of Le Mans), Dr. Eliane Elmaleh (Professor of American Culture at the University of Le Mans), Dr. Charles Nero (Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies at �ֲ��ý College), and Dr. Michael Johnson (Professor of English at UMF) for an exciting day-long examination of BLACKkKLANSMAN, the cinema of Spike Lee, and Black filmmaking co-sponsored by the New Commons Project and Global Education.

9:30 am: Welcome

10:00 am: CHARLES NERO, “STAY WOKE: SPIKE LEE TAKES ON THE INTERRACIAL BUDDY COP FILM”

February 9 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Education Center, room 103

University of Maine at Farmington

186 High Street

Farmington, ME 04938

Charles Nero, a �ֲ��ý College Professor who specializes in Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies, speaks Monday morning during the Lewiston college’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:21:00 +0000

‘Lift Every Voice’ resonates at �ֲ��ý College on Martin Luther King Day.

Professor Charles Nero Defines “camp”

Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:14:21 +0000

For �ֲ��ý professor Charles Nero and other film lovers and scholars of queer studies, camp is also a style that focuses on the excessive and over-the-top — an aesthetic that has been embraced by LGBTQ communities since the mid-20th century.

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