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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) dir. Leslie Harris (opens the original)
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One of my nieces is currently having an existential crisis regarding what to do with her life. It had me thinking about this awarding winning film on a teen struggling to stay on track at school so she can pursue her dreams, but is faced with personal and sexual challenges. Anatomy of a Film is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and su…<input class="button
July Film Anatomy (Part 4) (opens the original)
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America’s foundation was built not just on lofty ideals but on transactions. Land was seized for its value. Enslaved people were brought for the promise of free labor. Immigrants constructed the railroads, only to be cast aside when their work was done. The distance between the America we claim to be—land of opportunity, where hard work is rewarded—and the America that actually exists has always been defined by the gap between the myth of the American Dream and the machinery of American capitali
July Film Anatomy (Part 3) (opens the original)
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American History on Film: A 250-Year RetrospectivePart one traced the political birth of the United States — the arguments, the battles, the imperfect men who signed their names to an idea and hoped it would hold. Part two took us back further, to the 500 nations that were here long before America was a concept, and whose dispossession is the unspoken condition of everything that followed. Part three goes somewhere different. Not back in time, but deeper into the American story — to the people w
July Film Anatomy (Part 2) (opens the original)
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Part one of this series traced how the sovereign nation of the United States came to be. Part two begins before that — before the concept of America existed at all.The nations that lived on this land for thousands of years before European contact are not a footnote to the American story. They are its foundation, its oldest chapter, and in many ways its most unresolved one. But when I sat down to build this section of the retrospective, I ran into a wall that I think is itself the most important
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