Kū Kanaka: Stand Tall A Conversation with Filmmaker Marlene Booth
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Disability Studies, Film
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In this short interview, filmmaker and educator Marlene Booth discusses her work on the documentary Kū Kanaka: Stand Tall about the life of Native Hawaiian activist Kanalu Young. She also discusses her friendship with Young as well as her own creative practice.
Kū Kanaka: Stand Tall A Conversation with Filmmaker Marlene Booth by Raphael Raphael is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://rdsjournal.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.rds.hawaii.edu.
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Raphael Raphael, Adjunct Professor, University of Hawaii
Raphael is a film and media scholar focusing on the relationship of the body and media. His most recent work is Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque (with Sophia Siddique). Other writing includes contributions to Modern Language Association's Teaching Film(2012) and Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture (with Russell Meeuf) (2013). Dr. Raphael lectures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His scholarship is also informed by his own practice as a digital artist.