The Image of the Black in the Western Imagination; Othello'sCountrymen: The Mask of Blackness

FAIN: GN-*1481-80

Black Filmmakers Foundation (New York, NY 10016-7802)
Henry Louis Gates (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)

To support development of a pilot script and treatments for a documentary series entitled "The Image of the Black in the Western Imagination" dealing with how Blacks have been viewed in Western art and literature from classical antiquity through the 20th century.