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reading realism, representation, and essentialism (lubiano) - one of my favorite creators (tiktok) mentioned how niggas must start with love when watching films (butchering his words badly) but i thought about that statement while reading lubiano's arguments that surely being up worthwhile discussion surrounding lee but ultimately explodes in my eyes due to the lack of love for cinema. more to say on this later...

a no-theory theory of contemporary black cinema - my favorite text here so far. "But clearly if Europeans, who for centuries have waged war against each other, and are still caught up in their own ethnic rivalries, can construct a concept of themselves as a globally dominant white group, how can it be so much more objectionable for non-white people to construct a global counter-concept by which to defend themselves?"

spectatorship & capture in king kong: the guilty look - something i've been trying to conjure up in all of my experiments. james a. snead is bridging that gap.