Screening and discussion of The Flying Ace (1926), with an introduction by Cornell Professor, Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard
Presented in partnership with the Wharton Studio Museum and the Cayuga Museum of History & Art, this program explores the 1926 race film The Flying Ace directed by Richard E. Norman and starring Lawrence Criner. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Dr. Samantha Sheppard, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, will introduce the film and a Q&A will follow the screening.
Wednesday, September 24
6:30 PM
Carriage House Theater, Auburn, NY
Pay what you wish
Samantha N. Sheppard is an associate professor of cinema and media studies and Chair of the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen (University of California Press, 2020) and the forthcoming book The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History (Rutgers University Press) among other edited collections, book chapters, and articles. She is currently working on her third book, A Black W/hole: Phantom Cinemas and the Reimagining of Black Women's Media Histories, for which she was named a 2021 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her writing on film and media can be found in both academic and popular venues, including The Atlantic, Film Quarterly, Flash Art International, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among many others. As a cultural critic, Dr. Sheppard has been quoted in The New York Times, CNN, Vox, BBC News, The Washington Post, Business Insider, NBC News, Miami News Press, and LA Weekly. She has also been featured in several documentaries and podcasts and was a special guest presenter on Turner Classic Movies.
The Wharton Studio Museum is happy to be continuing its collaboration with the Cayuga Museum of History and Art/Case Research Lab and co-producing this screening. This program is supported by the Fred M. Everett and Ora H. Everett Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., and the New York State Council on the Arts.
This program is part of the Finger Lakes Film Trail’s Race Film/Race Matters series.