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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and Pedagogical Filmmaking in the Movement for Black Lives

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and Pedagogical Filmmaking in the Movement for Black Lives

As with Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee's films are replete with experimental aesthetics that deconstruct the conventions of (white) Hollywood and re-frame and re-contextualize Black lives and Black history.

There’s a War Going on: Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’

There’s a War Going on: Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’

Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods engages with the notion of perpetual conflict. But how well does it fit into the current social milieu of demonstrations against police violence?

Apocalypse, American Style

Apocalypse, American Style

Apocalypse Now is the most iconic American film about America’s War in Vietnam. But we are not here to expand the myth. We are here to explode it.

Marcelino Truong’s ‘Saigon Calling’ Is a Beautiful Graphic Memoir of a Nightmarish Time

Marcelino Truong’s ‘Saigon Calling’ Is a Beautiful Graphic Memoir of a Nightmarish Time

This book offers a poignant and jarring reminder not just of the resilience of the human spirit, but also of its ability to seek solace in the materiality of one's present.