‘Nothing But a Man’ Is an Unflinching Drama of Marriage and Racism
Nothing But a Man is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families.
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What ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About America
Telling the tale of the cyclops through the lens of high and low culture, in O'Brother, Where Art Thou? the Coens hammer home a fatalistic criticism about the ways that commerce, violence, and cosmetic Christianity prevail in American society .
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Conveyed with urgency and mindfulness, Johnson's Black. Queer. Southern. Women. creates a space for revisioning critical race and sexual ideologies while affirming the voices of queer black women.
‘Green Book’ Delivers Its Message About Racism with a Spoon Full of Sugar
Peter Farrelly's first foray into drama, Green Book, is simplistic in its message for examining racism, but maybe that simplicity serves as the sugar coating the pill that many current Americans need to swallow.
‘Novel Sounds’ and the Southern Institution’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Problem
In Novel Sounds, scholar Florence Dore is interested in how a mass cultural phenomenon like rock 'n' roll can help illuminate realities about institutionalized high culture.
Of Bodies and Souls: Representing the Historically Marginalized in ‘The Spirit Photographer’
In Jon Michael Varese's latest, exposure and concealment interweave into an intricate tapestry of interconnected motivations and intentions.
‘Blood at the Root’ and the Cultivation of Racial Hatred in America
The story of Georgia's all-white Forsyth County and how they made it that way.