Charles P. Linscott
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Great question, Jenny!
I wouldn't say that the intro combines all of the visual themes so much as it previews some of the film's aesthetics while stridently announcing that the audience is in for a really wild ride. The camera spins, is flipped upside down, shakes ... -
Further Down the Conjunctive Passageway
Hi Sarah! This is a marvelously poetic comment. I love the notion of a "set of elsewheres" that may provide a form of shelter. It seems to me that Joseph's films often work to depict these sorts of mysterious "other places"--wheth ... -
The Dirty South
Michele’s post, and the insightful comments from Regina and Akil, lead me to think about marginalization and restriction in Southern space. It seems difficult to imagine the South as a space without de-facto segregation, political/economic marginalization ... -
Hip hop in the South
First, this is making me really hungry! Being from the South, but living in Ohio, I really miss a lot of this food. Sigh. More importantly, though, I think these critiques of representation are so valuable. I was reading about the musical subgenre known a ... -
Killin' It
Exactly. The "reconstruction" is, of course, an ongoing project, but I think that hip hop is uniquely qualified to engage such a project, especially with its populist tendencies overall. This is not to say that other musical genres cannot do thi ... -
Billboard and Urban Daily
Thanks Akil! I have not seen it. I will definitely take a look at it. ... -
Multiple Souths and Nonlinear Time
Awesome! The idea of hip-hop and Southern culture as experiencing time in a nonlinear fashion is very compelling. I think sampling does this, with its emphasis on reuse and reconfiguration of the past, and so provides some of the multiple points of entry ...