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Rebecca and Tori dive deep into Ousmane Sembene's 1966 classic, 'Black Girl,' discussing its political themes and encouraging listeners to watch the film.

Rebecca and Tori don't chat, we dive deep into Ousmane Sembene's 1966 classic, 'Black Girl.' This is the next installment of our Recommended By series based on the Criterion Collection Closet Picks. In this podcast, we get political as we discuss colonialism, post-colonialism, economic slavery, racism, and abuse. For the first time, we are spoiler-free for the first 25-ish minutes because we encourage you to listen to us for the spoiler-free segment, go watch the film if you haven't seen it, then come back and listen to the rest of the podcast. We were so engrossed in our conversation that we forgot to pick both our Shining Star and Spotlight Scene. PS: We mention in the podcast that two of the characters don't have names. It was only in editing the podcast that we found out they do. Our bad. Music Apache Rock Instrumental | by Sound Atelier ; licensed from Jamendo Movie Clips Benjamin James | 21 Feb 2020 | Black Girl (1966) | YouTube Sound Effect Countdown | by freesound_community from Pixabay Restricted Sources "Senegal." In Political Handbook of the World 2022-2023, edited by Tom Lansford, Jorge Brown, Jack Covarrubias, David Harms Holt, and Robert J. Pauly, Jr., 1523-1535…

People in this episode

Hosts: Rebecca, Tori

Topics covered

• colonialism
• post-colonialism
• economic slavery
• racism
• abuse
• film analysis

Keywords

• Black Girl
• Ousmane Sembene
• colonialism
• post-colonialism
• film review
• racism
• economic slavery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Criterion Collection

Books & works: Black Girl

Places: Senegal

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