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LOGGER'S SHEET LOGGER: Andras Goldinger REEL NUMBER 9 STAGE: AFS DATE: 6/25/88 PRESENTOR: Nick Spitzer GROUP NAME: "Folklore on Stage + Screen: The Good, the Bad + the Ugly REGION/STYLE: PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION Worth Long - filmmaker - Atlanta, Georgia Rayna Green, folklorist - Wash, DC. Nick Spitzer, folklorist - Wash, DC cont: CONTENTS 1. N.S. [[underline]] Belizaire, the Cajun [[/underline]] audience? - [[underline]] Birth of a Nation [[/underline]] other nations 2. W.L. importance because of technique, Griffith's version of chivalrous South, 3. disservice to blacks, stereotypes, docile, in fear of Klan people in power portray others negatively -- evokes race. 4. N.S. Spike Lee's [[underline]] School Daze [[/underline]]audience member's reactions in [[underline]] School Daze + She's Gotta Have It [[/underline]] 5. W.L. reactions to [[underline]] School Daze [[/underline]] 6. R.G. ordinary lives, what outsider thought interesting - exotic, strange - focus on ordinary + be successful - [[underline]] 7. Frank's Place [[/underline]], a remarkable tone of ordinary 8. audience? - New York, Brooklyn Stereotype 9. W.L. all Hollywood depictions of ordinary offensive -- Soviet acts -- Hollywood wouldn't focus on trad. - [[underline]] theatrical focus [[/underline]] 10. R.G. Les Blank - show you weird parts as well as trad. 11. audience - Native American plays 12. R.G. - Native Am. filmmaker, isn't supported by major film studios [[underline]] Hops filmmaker [[/underline]] child as clown folklorists; from Lynn Martin until tourists demand real hula 13. audience - film universal connections of culture N.S. [[underline]] Zydeco [[/underline]]shown in Kenya vs. [[underline]] Benson [[/underline]] [[underline]] Jeffersons [[/underline]] depictions -- national media depictions in international markets, audience -- [[underline]] Milagro Beanfield Wars [[/underline]] -- positive images W.L. Redford -- right some wrongs - over