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Whether of Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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Reading Black Reconstruction Today

by Yousuf Al-Bulushi (Editor), Geo Maher (Editor), and 1 more
Aug 2026
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How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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Open Access