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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Ep. 55 – Several Exclamation Points
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Show Notes & Links:
- Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
- We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol
- Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
- Not like Back to the Future
- Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
- Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
59 episoade
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Show Notes & Links:
- Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
- We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol
- Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
- Not like Back to the Future
- Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
- Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
59 episoade
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