The Black Ecstatic
Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a se...
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| description | Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies. |
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