Ryan Friedman African Americans in Early Hollywood Films

Ryan Friedman, assistant professor in the Department of English and a member of Ohio State's interdisciplinary film studies faculty, talks about the presence of African Americans in early sound-era Hollywood films in this year's annual Film Studies Lecture.

Founded in 2005, Ohio State's program in film studies draws together the teaching and research expertise of recognized scholars from almost a dozen university departments, offering students the opportunity to think historically and critically about the entire culture of global cinema.