McQueen’s choice of genre raised eyebrows in the movie establishment, but similar ideas run through all his films.
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The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
A growing roll call of books, films and television shows are focusing on the legacy of slavery.
Britishness seemed to be main motif in the BBC’s broadcast of the 2014 Baftas. When host Stephen Fry mentioned the event was the highlight of the British film calendar, he backtracked and asked, “Is there…
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller This past weekend, I went with family and friends to see the film…
The United States was in the middle of a civil war 150 years ago and, while Abraham Lincoln had just issued the emancipation proclamation, it would still be another 18 months until freedom finally came…
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