Within Our Gates - Episode 1: Da 5 Rambos

Episode 1: Da 5 Rambos

07/16/20 • 97 min

Mtume and Andray (@andraydomise) review Spike Lee's not-Rambo-but-kinda-Ramboish Netflix joint "Da 5 Bloods." We get into the war in Vietnam, Black revolutionary politics of the 1970s, Rambo, Vietnam in US film, and Haile Gerima's "Ashes and Embers."

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Episode 2: Could Watermelon Man Be Made Today? (Part 1 of 2)

This week we have special guest Trevor Beaulieu of Champagne Sharks to talk about Melvin Van Peebles' under-appreciated classic 1970 film Watermelon Man. And through the lens of Watermelon Man we talk about could a film be made like this today? Does Black Hollywood look to do narratives like this anymore? And if not what is the state of Black Film today?

Show Notes:
Why Jordan Peele's Get Out fails and as an exploration of whiteness in America by Mtume Gant https://medium.com/@mtumegant/why-jordan-peeles-get-out-fails-as-an-exploration-of-whiteness-in-america-495da71e6c5

Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/29/4/66/1646288?redirectedFrom=PDF

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