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- Title
An American Dilemma? It's Happening in Detroit, or the Swedish History of Finally Got the News (1970)<sup> 1 </sup>.
- Authors
Sundholm, John
- Abstract
This paper presents the Swedish history of the legendary documentary Finally Got the News (1970), a collaboration between Newsreel and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Through an analysis of the re-edited print made by Swedish TV in 1971 and archival research on the League member Glanton Dowdell, who distributed the film in Sweden, the paper sets out to both correct some of the previous research and reveal how racism was a blind spot in Sweden, which at that time appeared to be the model of a politically progressive country that engaged with the American Black Power movement.
- Subjects
DETROIT (Mich.); SWEDEN; BLACK power movement; AFRICAN Americans; BLACK people; DILEMMA; PRINTMAKING
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/blc.00007