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The Underground Railroad, trauma porn and the black gaze

In recent years, cinematic portrayals of police brutality, slavery, segregation and other forms of black suffering have increasingly been met with eye-rolls from black people themselves. Audiences have begun to notice that although the “anti-racist” narrative genre is exponentially expanding, the stories that are being told are similar. From Orange is the New Black to When

The brutal truth of Black life in Amerikkka

Carter James is having what looks like a beautiful morning. As he walks out of an apartment building after a one-night stand, he lights a cigarette, puts on his earphones and starts walking. He is beginning what will be one of many attempts to get home to his lovely dog Jeter. Little does he know his life is about to end as he finds himself a victim of the senseless police violence plaguing the United States and the rest of the world. While James is suffocating and screaming “I can’t breathe” during the graphic scene in Two Distant Strangers, the police officer’s facial expression displays a disturbing level of nonchalance from a person who’s about to end another’s life. James has neither broken the law nor threatened the police officer, but the cop insists he is guilty. 

Silver (Screen) Linings

istock After the handing out of the Oscars this past April, movie award season has officially come and gone and with it, an eclectic cohort of films designated as the best of 2020. You d be forgiven for being unfamiliar with many if not most of the prestigious titles in this year s nomination club, since the most commercially successful of the bunch ( Promising Young Woman) earned a scant $6 million at the domestic box office. With theaters closed for the bulk of the past year, most of the major, anticipated blockbusters were bumped, opening up a cinema vacuum that was filled by considerably smaller-budget, intimate dramas with the aid of streaming services. The upside is that many of the relatively obscure titles that might have run for a couple of weeks at your local arthouse theater before disappearing into oblivion are ready to be viewed at any time for the price of a subscription yo

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