Slavery is one of the most tragic realities of human history. It has led to conflicts, trauma, generational inequality, and ...
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 ...
The truth behind the myths America still protects.
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 ...
When I saw the first trailer for Free State of Jones, I knew I was not going to like it. White guy leads rebellion of poor whites and runaway blacks in the Civil War? I expected another white-savior ...
For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and repressed but never extinguished. It surfaces in words, in politics and sometimes in the movies. In the middle of Steven ...
The New York Times took stock of the past 25 years in films and compiled a list of the 100 best movies released so far in the 21st century. Among the movies selected by 500 people involved in the film ...