This new podcast is hosted by two of the all-female team of academics, film programmers & social researchers behind website myDylarama, Abla Kandalaft and Coco Green. We’ll discuss films/TV series/screen-related matters in relation to social, racial and economic issues with occasional guests, and good indie international films. You can support us at https://ko-fi.com/mydy and subscribe at mydy.link/subscribe for offers, discounts and goodies from our partners.
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self. The Adam Curtis documentary analyses how Freudian theories are used for ideological control by consumer capitalism and governments. We talk about the implications of conceptualising freedom as autonomy and self-expression; and the conditions for building a democracy outside of emotional manipulation.
Tom will briefly discuss his pick of the week, BBC series Ladhood.
Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. While beautifully shot, Antebellum fails in its attempt explore the sociopathy of the white slaveholding class--mainly because the story isn't set in a slave society. The film can’t come to terms with slavery being the basis of capitalism and, as a result, relies on black pain to tell a meaningless story.
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