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01.08 - The Last Dragon (1985)
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February 25, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the 1985 cult classic comedy The Last Dragon, directed by Michael Schultz, starring Taimak, Vanity, and Julius Carry.
Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo
Sources for this episode:
The Last Dragon. Audio Commentary by Michael Schultz, directed by Schultz, TriStar Pictures, 2015.
Smalls, Shanté Paradigm. “Eating Popcorn with Chopsticks: Revisionary Black Masculinity in Berry Gordy’s the Last Dragon.” Criticism, vol. 58, no. 2, Spring 2016, pp. 305–26. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.13110/criticism.58.2.0305.
Cha-Jua, S. (2008). Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity. In P. Fu (Ed.), China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (pp. 199-223). University of Illinois Press.
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