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The Power of Narrative in ‘Django Unchained’
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner Written by Leigh Kolb Spoilers ahead In 2011, two presidential hopefuls signed a pledge that, in its original form, insinuated that...
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2013 Golden Globes Week: From a Bride with a Hanzo Sword to a Damsel in...
This is a guest review by Tracy Bealer and is cross-posted with permission from Gender Focus. Movie poster for Django Unchained One of the pleasures of being a Quentin Tarantino fan for the last (gulp)...
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2013 Oscar Week: Heroic Black Love and Male Privilege in ‘Django Unchained’
Guest post written by Joshunda Sanders. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was a movie I never thought I’d see or write about. As much as I adore movies and popular culture, particularly when black...
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2013 Oscar Week: ‘A Royal Affair’
Guest post written by Rosalind Kemp. Rather than merely bringing European history to the screen A Royal Affair is an effective character drama of three people and their relationships with each other....
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The Gaze of Objectification: Race, Gender, and Privilege in ‘Belle’
[caption id="attachment_11315" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Movie poster for Belle[/caption] This guest post by Laura Shamas, PhD, previously appeared at Huffington Post and is cross-posted with...
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Normalizing the Black Family
This guest post by Atima Omara appears as part of our theme week on Black Families. In 12 Years of Slave, the theme of family is a tie that binds throughout the story. While the film depicts the life...
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Black Solidarity and Family in ‘The Retrieval’
This guest post by Jackson Adler previously appeared at his blog, The Windowsill, and appears as part of our theme week on Black Families. Cross-posted with permission. Chris Eska’s independent film...
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Call For Writers: Interracial Relationships
Our theme week for December 2015 will be Interracial Relationships. Representations of interracial relationships in film and on television have seen an increase over the years. It is ever more common...
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