“Tarantino’s Candy (Slavery in the White Male Imagination)”
Tanya Steele watches Lincoln and Django Unchained back to back. “I needed to get a glimpse of what slavery was like in the imagination of white men.” (Thanks, Mike White!)
Making The Blues Brothers.
At Vanity Fair, Ned Zeman explores the history of The Blues Brothers. “It is October 1979, and The Numbers are not to [Lew] Wasserman’s satisfaction. The culprit is Universal’s big-ticket production The Blues Brothers, a movie that pretty much defies logic and description. Some call it a musical; […]
Europa Film Treasures
A cache of European film, online, free and complete! (Thanks, Beth!)
Black Kirby
Artvoice profiles, Black Kirby, John Jennings and Stacey Robinson’s art team that “imitates and parodies Jack Kirby’s in style and substance, adding an African-American—and notably contemporary—dimension.”
“Wildman! Study of the British Bigfoot”
Cryptomundo goes in search off… The British Bigfoot. (via @mattstaggs)
“Protest Style”
HAPS puts PSY’s protest style in context.
The Cultural Gutter 