Category: Essays
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Things I Should’ve Told You
//Your Name is On The Radio Station We Listen To// I watched ‘Ladybird’ with my mom and we both learned a lot of things about ourselves. We’ll never talk about it, but seeing her depart from the prison of melancholia in the years since has been joyous. I learned to let go of the anger…
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Black and white in Technicolor: Jazz and Racism in the modern movie musical
2018’s BlacKkKlansman closes to a hauntingly jivey rendition of Prince singing ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’, a negro spiritual, which tends to be a kinder way of saying ‘slave song’ (Lee, 2018). As with most pre-emancipation music, this was a song amongst African Americans that coded messages of resilience within religious narratives. For context, the last visuals of the…
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Diegetic, And Then Not:
A study in Bo Burnham’s effortless transgressions toward Claudia Gorbman You’re telling your friend a story. Of sorrow, of loss, your tone is mellow, your voice is raspy, and then but a whisper. You speak of the sunlight, of the noise, the smiles and the laughs, paint a picture as it were; Images come to…