1 - 30 - The Marketing of Finn in TFA

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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