Film Review

Film Review: Selma, MLK, and Voting Rights: The Film Version

By Leonard Quart
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It seems like an eternity has passed since the chants of “we shall overcome” to “I can’t breathe” and “hands up, don’t shoot.” In fact, a millennium seems to have gone by since that night in Grant Park on November 4th, 2008 when some Americans thought we were on the point of entering a post-racial…

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Hollywood Follows the Money: Films of the ‘Great Recession’

By Leonard Quart
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In his Academy Award winning performance as the corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987), Michael Douglas uttered his infamous credo that, “Greed is good.” However, a less widely remembered but an equally revealing Gekko comment was his statement that, “It’s all about the bucks, the rest is conversation.” Hollywood seems to have followed…

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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2

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