Taylor was an African Americna film scholar and critic who made contributions to cinema studies and African American Studies, Trained at Howard University as an undergraduate. He prused graduate study at wayne State University where he received his PhD in English, He became associated with the LA Rebellion, a group of African American filmmakers who emerged from the UCLA Scholl of Theater, Film and Television in the 1970s and focused on social realism and the rejection of Hollywood conventions. Taylor held faculty positions at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Mills College, then returned to Boston for a position in the Department of English at Tufts University. He was the author of The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract – Film and Literature (Indiana University Press, 1998), which was awarded the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 1999. He co-wrote the screenplay for Midnight Ramble, a seminal feature documentary about the work and legacy of Oscar Micheaux released by American Experience on PBS in 1995
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Panelist https://www.c-span.org/video/?171353-4/visionary-writers-future-america
Interviews https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview/clyde-taylor/ https://www.c-span.org/person/clyde-taylor/47588/ https://vimeo.com/865202449 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3EFE3KJEca/
Writings https://iupress.org/9780253211927/the-mask-of-art/
NYU https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/ct15.html https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/awardsandhonors/GraduationAwardsNominations.html
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