Charles Burnett (director)
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- This article is about an American film director. For the Scottish officer of arms , see Charles Burnett (officer of arms).
Charles Burnett (born April 13, 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA) is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, educated at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Unique among black directors, Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the Black middle class. His first feature, Killer of Sheep, was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. His other credits include My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger, and The Annihilation of Fish.
Killer of Sheep (1977) was declared a national treasure by the Library of Congress and was among the first 50 films placed on the US National Registry.
[edit] Bibliography
- Massood, Paula J., "An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse", Wide Angle - Volume 21, Number 4, October 1999, pp. 20-41
- Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk about the Magic of Cinema, ed. by George Alexander, Janet Hill, New York : Harlem Moon, 2003.
