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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Song to Song, with Steven DeLay (Malick 8)
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Thomas and Steven conclude their analysis of Malick's Weightless trilogy, looking at his 2017 film Song to Song. With this movie, Malick solidifies the Weightless trilogy's status as authentically Christian (specifically, Kierkegaardian) cinema. Using the setting of the Austin music scene, it delivers a positive message concerning the emptiness of hedonistic contemporary culture and how that lifestyle might be escaped. Thomas and Steven pay special attention to Michael Fassbender's role as a sinister record producer named Cook, Malick's version of a Miltonian Satan, a character that hints at the dark occult underbelly of the music industry.
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Thomas and Steven conclude their analysis of Malick's Weightless trilogy, looking at his 2017 film Song to Song. With this movie, Malick solidifies the Weightless trilogy's status as authentically Christian (specifically, Kierkegaardian) cinema. Using the setting of the Austin music scene, it delivers a positive message concerning the emptiness of hedonistic contemporary culture and how that lifestyle might be escaped. Thomas and Steven pay special attention to Michael Fassbender's role as a sinister record producer named Cook, Malick's version of a Miltonian Satan, a character that hints at the dark occult underbelly of the music industry.
https://twitter.com/StevenDeLay4
https://stevendelay.com/
https://sunypress.edu/Books/L/Life-Above-the-Clouds
https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop
https://www.patreon.com/PsyopCinema
http://psyop-cinema.com/
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https://twitter.com/StevenDeLay4
https://stevendelay.com/
https://sunypress.edu/Books/L/Life-Above-the-Clouds
https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop
https://www.patreon.com/PsyopCinema
http://psyop-cinema.com/
https://linktr.ee/psyopcinema
thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
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