Sentences with phrase «african utopia»

«Azania» is a reference to both classical Greek and Roman accounts of southern Africa and modern activists» dreams of the pre - and post-apartheid black African utopia.

Though a great majority of that credit goes to the work of Ryan Coogler and his collaborators on the film, the Civil War post-credits scene provided a sumptuous tease that had fans clamoring for a more extended look at the African utopia.

«It's not just an African utopia — it's a utopia.

To play a deadly black - ops soldier with designs on the throne of Wakanda, the technologically advanced African utopia that Black Panther rules and protects, Jordan doesn't just bulk up to superhuman proportions, his muscular torso covered in an almost tribal configuration of scars — one for each enemy his character has felled.

Gerard McCann, The Sixties and Red Africa: the decade of searching for African utopias, The Conversation, April 26, 2016

Not exact matches

Its actors, its costume design, its music, and countless other facets of the film are drawn from all over the continent and its diaspora, in a science - fiction celebration of the imaginary country of Wakanda, a high - tech utopia that is a fictive manifestation of African potential unfettered by slavery and colonialism.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

Chadwick Boseman plays King T'Challa, a / k / a the Black Panther, a monarch and superhero who hails from the fictional country Wakanda, an African tech - utopia that has never been conquered and is uniquely rich.

«They went to experience and absorb the culture and styles, from which we built the utopia of a hidden African country that had never been colonized,» Till explains.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

In the fictional African nation of Wakanda, Coogler & Co. grant us a utopia in which white colonialism never happened and people of color reached unparalleled excellence.

Black Panther stands out as a groundbreaker not just within the superhero genre, but in Hollywood in general — from the Gil Scott Heron track sampled throughout the trailer, to the Kendrick Lamar soundtrack, to the hair and makeup and set design, to Coogler's vision of what an African, technological utopia could look like (Wakanda is a capital city that's nothing like the Western or Asian - influenced visions of the future we know well — one of the most notable differences?

As director Ryan Coogler takes us on a journey through this hidden African - utopia, its several tribes are on full display.

The program includes a variety of formats, including a cooking show by Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen; a show on human - animal relations in Africa and Thailand by Korakrit Arunanondchai; a «general intellects» video with McKenzie Wark; a visual essay by Aria Dean; a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman; a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris - Babou; a cartoon by Amalia Ulman; a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas; a fictional drama by the South African collective CUSS Group exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa; and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.