In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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It's not easy growing up. That's true for the protagonist of this episode's movies, who's experiences, and their filmic representation are very different, as Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw and Astrit Abazi discuss. First up is NIMBE, the podcast's very first foray into Nollywood. The titular teenagers, struggles with problems at home and at school, slowly falling in with a group of drug dealers who make him feel at home. A morality play, with a very specific approach to aesthetics and narrative. The gem is PERSEPOLIS, a French Iranian animation, which follows Marjane Satrapi through her childhood and teenage years in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Olivia and Astrit discuss the very stark images and the question of whether this could truly happen anywhere.
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It's not easy growing up. That's true for the protagonist of this episode's movies, who's experiences, and their filmic representation are very different, as Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw and Astrit Abazi discuss. First up is NIMBE, the podcast's very first foray into Nollywood. The titular teenagers, struggles with problems at home and at school, slowly falling in with a group of drug dealers who make him feel at home. A morality play, with a very specific approach to aesthetics and narrative. The gem is PERSEPOLIS, a French Iranian animation, which follows Marjane Satrapi through her childhood and teenage years in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Olivia and Astrit discuss the very stark images and the question of whether this could truly happen anywhere.
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