Kathryn Bigelow
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Understanding your own privilege
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It happens from time to time that a celebrity says something offensive towards a specific community. It can be intentional or accidental, but it always causes online controversy. They say something insensitive, or they debunk a popular, non-canon relationship. This isn’t the issue, as they almost always apologize. The issue is the articles, blog posts,…
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Kathryn Bigelow was the wrong choice to direct Detroit
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The reception of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, which dramatizes the 1962 Detroit riots, has been thus far split between white and black film critics. While one side was quick to heap praise onto Bigelow’s latest controversial thriller, a minority of voices in the film criticism community took immediate umbrage with Bigelow’s presumptuousness in tackling such a…
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