Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, may feature several signifiers of an ultramodern slave narrative mixed with spaghetti Western bravado — bloody gunfights; n-word-spouting plantation ...
EXCLUSIVE: French screenwriter and director Simon Moutaïrou spent summers as a teenager in his father’s native country of Benin in West Africa. Etched on his memory from this time are the trips to its ...
In a talk before opening the London fest, the Oscar winner spoke about love, the "deafening silence" on slavery before '12 Years a Slave' (and meeting Prince during that Oscar weekend): "If Obama was ...
Nearly 30 students sat watching clips depicting the kidnapping that occuring during the slave trade, while narrators in the movies spoke of “slaves packed like sardines” in ships and how “new men ...
For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and repressed but never extinguished. It surfaces in words, in politics and sometimes in the movies. In the middle of Steven ...
Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In recent years, there has been an increased push ...
Steve McQueen has suggested that Hollywood has been guilty of ignoring slavery. The British filmmaker, whose new drama 12 Years a Slave centres on a free man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who's kidnapped and ...
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