'Where are the works on British Black urban films?' IAS's Dr Clive Nwonka speaks to The Guardian

Dr Nwonka argues that the Black British urban genre should be as valuable to British film culture and academia as the French new wave and British social realism.  Read the full interview here.

Nwonka’s research centres on the study of Black British and African American film, with a particular focus on the images of Black urbanity and the modes through which Black identities are shaped by representations of social environments, architecture, social anxieties and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture. In addition, he has published extensively on racial inequality in the creative industries and ‘diversity’ policy frameworks that are equally born from broader political discourses on race, racism and cultural difference. Thus, Nwonka’s research is interdisciplinary and spans across Film Studies, literature, Cultural Studies, Black Studies and Sociology.

Read more about Dr Nwonka's work here.