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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We return to William Ramsey Investigates, to discuss A Scanner Darkly, the Richard Linklater adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel. This bleak film gives us the chance to talk about the drug war psyop, how surveillance and intelligence culture erode identity, and some reservations about Linklater's work. As for PKD, unlike many other major figures from the worlds of counterculture and sci-fi, we find him to be more tragic than malevolent.
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We return to William Ramsey Investigates, to discuss A Scanner Darkly, the Richard Linklater adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel. This bleak film gives us the chance to talk about the drug war psyop, how surveillance and intelligence culture erode identity, and some reservations about Linklater's work. As for PKD, unlike many other major figures from the worlds of counterculture and sci-fi, we find him to be more tragic than malevolent.
https://www.williamramseyinvestigates.com/
https://twitter.com/WilliamRamseyIn
https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop
https://www.patreon.com/PsyopCinema
https://linktr.ee/psyopcinema
thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
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https://www.williamramseyinvestigates.com/
https://twitter.com/WilliamRamseyIn
https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop
https://www.patreon.com/PsyopCinema
https://linktr.ee/psyopcinema
thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
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