Blackness, Performance, Freedom
With Donald Glover at the helm of this episode, the audience is pulled into a parallel TV network that shocks, exposes, and tackles issues of the Black experience in America. Glover’s satire binds together a multitude of underlying messages. Current media repeatedly avoids gray areas. The binary of good and evil is something to cling…
For this week’s journal entry, I explored a moment of ecstatic joy in my life. These moments are really hard to come by, especially now. It is so easy to get bogged down into the hardships of everything going on, but making my apple pie was something that was really nice to do on my…
The film Guava Island embellishes and create new meaning for Childish Gambino’s music. In its essence, Guava Island is a musical. It was intentional to not have Glover’s music as a soundtrack, but rather embedded into the text. We hear full performances from Glover as Deni. They include background dancers and surrealist effects just like…
The question I would like to explore is ” What kind of work does child-like wonder, imagination, and magic do in/for the film Guava Island? And specifically what kind of work does it do around the way the text imagine race, blackness, and freedom?”. I really enjoyed the film in itself, and its use of cinematic elements to…