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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Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Mark Altman. MARK A. ALTMAN is a television and motion picture writer/producer/director who is currently the
showrunner/executive producer of the upcoming adaptation of the bestselling book series, Deathlands. Trek fans, of course, will know him from his podcast "Inglorious Treksperts" along as His bestselling two-volume book, The 50 Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized History of Star Trek, was released by St. Martin’s Press in hardcover to unanimous critical acclaim including raves in The Wall Street Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly.
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