About this episode

The episode discusses the misleading marketing of Finn in The Force Awakens and its implications for the African American community.

We are back after a short break with a new release schedule of once a month. On today's episode, Alex, Ethan and Sarah welcome Chris Ryons of Broaxium to talk about the false marketing of Finn to the African American Community for The Force Awakens. Was it a bait and switch? A bait and wait? Was Finn ever given the opportunity that was shown in the trailers? Find out all this and more on episode!.

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex, Ethan, Sarah

Guest: Chris Ryons

Topics covered

• Finn marketing
• Star Wars
• The Force Awakens
• representation
• film marketing
• African American community
• bait and switch

Keywords

• Finn
• Star Wars marketing
• African American representation
• The Force Awakens
• bait and switch
• film analysis
• Chris Ryons

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Broaxium

Books & works: The Force Awakens

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