In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Welcome to How Have You Not Seen, a podcast where everything is more complicated than you think.
This week, Carson Introduces Caroline to Charlie Kaufman's divisive, postmodern opus Synecdoche, NY and then refuses to even try to explain what the movie's actually about.
This week's important questions;
Is Charlie Kaufman okay?
Caden Cotard: macho alpha or whiny sadboy?
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Is this movie kinda obvious?
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