{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"FILM SENSE: Afro-futurism & Ethno-Gothic","description":" Black Panther... Get Out... Candyman... all have become classics of speculative fiction.  They are also shining examples of AFRO-FUTURISM and the ETHNO-GOTHIC.   With the success of these films, it may seem that a new sub-genre of fantastic cinema is being born.  But according to PROFESSOR JOHN JENNINGS, horror and science fiction have been depicting the black experience for quite sometime.  What we have instead is a Renaissance. So join Prof. Jennings and myself as we explore this new birth. Bio: JOHN JENNINGS is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings\u2019 current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler\u2019s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred. Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels. Sound Clips: Luke Cage - Disney Enterprises, Inc. \u00a9 COPYRIGHT MCMXCI, MMI DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. All Rights Reserved \u00a9 2016 Marvel Sun Ra \/ "Calling Planet Earth" - \u00a9 1998 \u00a9 2015 D A Music \/ Org Music (from a 1971 live performance) Underground Resistance \/ "Jupiter Jazz" - \u00a9 1992 Mad Mike Music Get Out - \u00a9 2017 Universal Studios Candyman - \u00a9 1992 Polygram Filmed Entertainment Avengers: Infinity War - \u00a9 2018 Marvel Suggested Reading from Prof. Jennings: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Illustatetd by John Jennings. Adapted by Damian Duffy Black Kirby by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent - Edited by Reynaldo Anderson & John Jennings Marvel Essential Luke Cage Power Man Vol. 2 by Various The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher Flyboy 2 by Greg Tate Creating Black Americans by Nell Irvin Painter Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor by Elizabeth Young Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Framing Blackness: The African American Image In Film by Ed Guerrero CORRECTION: The name of the executive producer of LITTLE is Marsai Martin (Blackish). ","author_name":"Film Sense","author_url":"http:\/\/filmsense.libsyn.com\/website","html":"