Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, may feature several signifiers of an ultramodern slave narrative mixed with spaghetti Western bravado — bloody gunfights; n-word-spouting plantation ...
Nearly 30 students sat watching clips depicting the kidnapping that occuring during the slave trade, while narrators in the movies spoke of “slaves packed like sardines” in ships and how “new men ...
(The Root) — Not many films keep me thinking for days on end. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, about a slave-turned-bounty hunter in the antebellum South, accomplished this and then some. As a ...
Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...
S. Pearl Sharp laughs before the questioner even finishes: What about African-Americans who've gotten the good education, good job and have no connection to slavery and . . . "That famous phrase, 'Why ...
The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve. By Annie Aguiar Jeremy O. Harris’s new documentary — titled “Slave Play. Not A ...