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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Episode 18: Phonogram And Avatar
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The wet season has come to Toronto, and your new BFFs are damp and cranky. But we know you need your content, so up this week is the music-is-magic graphic novel series Phonogram and the beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Will Caitlin be able to navigate the obscurity of Phonogram's references? Will Jordan dismiss Avatar as a poor-man's shonen? Answers! You will have them. For now. Unless this heat keeps up. Then you get nothing til October. Also this episode: Preacher is dope, Starfleet gets summer-ready, Cap makes everyone mad, the Catbus is boarding and Mark Millar still sucks.
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The wet season has come to Toronto, and your new BFFs are damp and cranky. But we know you need your content, so up this week is the music-is-magic graphic novel series Phonogram and the beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Will Caitlin be able to navigate the obscurity of Phonogram's references? Will Jordan dismiss Avatar as a poor-man's shonen? Answers! You will have them. For now. Unless this heat keeps up. Then you get nothing til October. Also this episode: Preacher is dope, Starfleet gets summer-ready, Cap makes everyone mad, the Catbus is boarding and Mark Millar still sucks.
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