If Cate Blanchett read fridge instructions to me, she'd still have my full attention
How could she not. Have you /heard/ her voice???
LINK: Octavia Butler did this in 1979.
Super cool article about a queer Latinx woman who went on a suit-buying adventure. Definitely relate to the body image struggles in here.
Source: autostraddle.com
Seen Ghostbusters in theaters twice. I can confidently tell you that this sequence is not any less spectacular the second time through.
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (2008)
by Adilifu Nama
“Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan’s Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness.
Setting his study against the backdrop of America’s ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and “otherness”; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking.
The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.”
Get it now here
Adilifu Nama is an Associate Professor at California State University Northridge. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic. Throughout his books, various articles, and presentations, Nama has explored how race and media intersect in television, film, and hip-hop music with a critical eye toward contextualizing black representation along with black racial formation.
I bought this book about six months back and can confirm, it is amazing.
I wanna read this.
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jillian holtzmann reblog if u agree
The year is 2040. Our president is a plant.
Jillian Holtzman, Ghostbusters
(via taythemermaid)
I cackled.
Dr Holtzman made me gayer
This. Action. Sequence.
Please tell me I’m not the only one that got turned on during Holtzman’s fight scene
To quote my sister re: that scene, "NOTHING LIKE THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE."
me when i am mildly inconvenienced: thIS IS THE WORST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO ME
me when i am legitimately hurt/distressed: no no it's fine i've had worse
Cophine + one kiss per season 1x08 / 2x02 / 3x10 / 4x10
kristenunlimited
Look at what this human has become
