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• In Media Res
  Re: Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

  Thanks for calling attention to this

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 8:12 pm

  David, thanks for calling attention to this film.  I'll have to put this on my netflix queue.  I have two questions for you.  First, how do you see this film fitting into a larger hip-hop cinema?  More specifically, is there a body of Japanese hip-ho ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Yes

  By

  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 8:28 pm

  Yes, I think a large part of what the hip-hopsploitation films are doing, whether overtly/consicously or not, is domesticating hip-hop culture for a more mainstream audience.  With perhaps the exception of Wild Style  and Style Wars, which were made by pe ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Definitely, but. . .

  By

  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 8:43 pm

  David, I definitely agree with both your overarching points.  The appearance of authenticity seems to be a key feature of how hip-hop, and by extension "blackness," is sold to a largely white audience.  I also agree that there is a danger in cal ...

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