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Lists: A Salute To 90’s Cinema Bad Boys

July 8, 2008

The 90’s were a great time for the you if you were young, a boy, and white.
I have always been drawn to films that feature this type of privileged, manipulative young male character who spends the entire film mind fucking all the adults in his world while he orchestrates his own brand of chaos.
I suppose [...]

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Afro-Punk thread: Black Female Antagonists in Cinema

July 2, 2008

I love the feedback and opportunities for thoughtful interaction that I get through my profile on afropunk.com.
Within this space, I recently re-posted an older blog entry I had written a while ago about Girl Antagonists in Cinema. Matrix commented and asked me to expound on a similar yet slightly broader (and more challenging) category: Black [...]

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Homework Notes: La Jetée

March 3, 2008

- image via lemmy_caution on flickr
I decided to write this before reading any information that was available online. The following notes were written based on my own impressions after watching La Jetée for the first time.
La Jetée is a 30 minute short science fiction film. It deals with the following themes: war, time travel, romance, [...]

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