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Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
Black Panther (2018) not only heralded a new future for representation in big-budget films but also gave an alternative vision of the past, one which recasts the Enlightenment within an African context. By going through its technological enlightenment in isolation from Western ideals and dominance, Wakanda opens a space for reflecting on alternate ways progress can—and still might—unfold. More specifically, this alternative history creates room for reimagining how modernity—with its myriad social, scientific, and religious paradigm shifts—could have negotiated questions of race, and, in turn, how race could have informed and redirected some of the lesser impulses of modernity. Similar …
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Alice (2022), directed by Krystin Ver Linden.
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Descendant (2022), directed by Margaret Brown.
Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America, John C. Lyden
Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021), directed by Emily Kunstler.
Burden, John C. Lyden
Burden, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Burden (2020) directed by Andrew Heckler.
The Butler, Carol Miles
The Butler, Carol Miles
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels.