Can film and TV solve racism?
ELLEN E. JONES, AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK SCREEN DEEP, WEIGHS IN ON ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HEAVIEST ISSUES
Killers Of The
Flower Moon;
Steven Yeun in
Beef;
1915’s
The Birth Of
ANation; The Jazz
Singer;
Directors Ava DuVernay and
Jonathan Glazer.
SELF-CONFIDENCE IS not a quality that the movie biz typically lacks. From bombastic trailers to back-slapping award ceremonies, movie people —God love ’em —are the kind who never think too small, nor underestimate their own ability to save the world. Yet when it comes to one particular humanity-threatening crisis —racism —thinking too small is exactly what’s gone wrong.