Sentences with phrase «by black writers»

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Her work has appeared in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America, Best American Experimental Writing, Inquiring Mind, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology, and elsewhere, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute's American Jazz Museum, San Francisco's first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

It also was written by black writers (Coogler and Joe Robert Cole) and stars a nearly all - black cast, with the exception of Andy Serkis as Ulysses Claue, a one - armed arms dealer; Martin Freeman as CIA agent Everett K. Ross; and, of course, the obligatory cameo from Stan Lee, the face of Marvel Comics.

Read memoirs written by black writers.

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Not exact matches

Created as a comic series by Jewish American writer - artist Jack Kirby in 1966, the eponymous black superhero represents the resistance to settler - colonial forces — the kinds of forces upon which America's nationhood was constructed.

The idea of a black swan event was pioneered by the finance professional turned writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb after the results of the 2008 financial crisis.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»

Given all this, I was very interested to read yesterday a new Huffington Post Highline piece by Jane Black, a food and food politics writer whom I've long admired.

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That fear is why Clinton's team has placed extra emphasis on having Bill Clinton — famously called the «first black president» by the writer Tony Morrison — on the stump for his wife.

Last season, for example, excerpts from a moving essay by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Hilton Als on iconic black author James Baldwin and his queer «children» provided the philosophical context, and prior to that, there was a poem by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, the British - Ghanaian painter and writer.

The «traditions are important» line is funny, without being too glib (the «Jesus» and «Black Men» pieces mentioned are by David Sedaris, hardly a religious writer at all).

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Credited to three writers, «The Fighter» was directed by David O. Russell, who reportedly rewrote the screenplay during filming, adding humor to a project originally planned for Darren Aronofsky («The Wrestler,» «Black Swan»), who isn't exactly known for his light touch.

Movies like last year's «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» for example, written and directed by «Lethal Weapon» writer Shane Black, got the spirit just right: Black's movie showed plenty of affectionate nostalgia for pulp tradition, but its sense of energy and movement felt wholly contemporary.

Apart from Padilha, 7 Days in Entebbe has promising credentials: a strong cast headed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike as the German radicals who prove out of their depth running the hijack mission with two Palestinians, and a script by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke, who also scored a notable Berlin hit in 2014 as writer of the super-tense Northern Ireland drama» 71.

«Black Nativity,» loosely based on a play by Langston Hughes, is brought beautifully to life by writer / director Kasi Lemmons, a true auteur in every sense of the word.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

The new Black Panther comic book series at Marvel, featuring Ta - Nehisi Coates as the writer and Brian Stelfreeze as the illustrator, will be the first time in a little while that a high - profile character will be penned by two creators of color — and it's Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters Black Panther comic book series at Marvel, featuring Ta - Nehisi Coates as the writer and Brian Stelfreeze as the illustrator, will be the first time in a little while that a high - profile character will be penned by two creators of color — and it's Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters black superhero characters ever.

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Maybe it's corny to start a review by pointing at writer / director Shane Black's previous outings (not to mention his credits as one or the other).

Writer / director James Toback, best known for movies like Bugsy, Two Girls and A Guy, and Black & White, is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over a 22 year period.

«Three Billboards» is a pitch - black comedy by writer - director Martin McDonagh («In Bruges»), which follows a mother (McDormand) who unleashes her fury over her daughter's unsolved murder on the town's sheriff.

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After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

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Highlighted by yet another excellent audio commentary by writer / director Craig Brewer, the single - disc effort also includes a making - of featurette («Conflicted»), a behind - the - scenes look at the filming of the «Black Snake Moan» musical sequence, and another on the film's musical influences («Rooted in the Blues»).

It was the second all - black cast film produced by a major Hollywood studio and the first sound film by white writer and director King Vidor.

Anticipating the wave, Marvel Comics is putting out a crash course on the Wakandan king with next week's Black Panther Annual # 1, a one - shot featuring stories by three writers who played major roles in the character's past.

Author, journalist and comic book writer Ta - Nehisi Coates recently told comedian Marc Maron that he relates to T'Challa, the fictional character that goes by the name Black Panther in Marvel Comics.

The character of The Mandarin was considered by many (including writer / director Shane Black) too racially insensitive to be portrayed on screen, but Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige has explained how Sir Ben is going to play the originally Oriental baddie: by not actually being Chinese.

While DiCaprio nails the mannerisms and in some ways, captures the pain stricken tortured soul persona of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, he can not elevate the limp and uncertain material written by Academy Award winning writer Dustin Lance Black.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

When the writer - director's debut, Pariah, about a black lesbian teenager coming to terms with her sexuality, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, it was a darling with critics and was bought by distributor Focus Features.

Writer / director Nancy Meyers certainly can't be accused of typecasting by injecting Black,... Read More»

The plot of Paris, Texas is disarmingly simple, focusing on the dramatic after - effects of a marriage's breakdown on young Hunter (played by Hunter Carson, son of writer L. M. Kit Carson and actress Karen Black); his father, Travis (a name that still had sinister resonance eight years after Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and played with shell - shocked intensity by Harry Dean Stanton); and his mother, Jane, a plain name almost willfully ill suited to the fragile, feral character embodied in the film by Nastassja Kinski.

Lebanese writer - director Nadine Labaki keeps the details general in her sharp black musical comedy about women trying to keep the peace in an isolated village populated by equal numbers of Muslims and Christians.

The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.

Writer / director Shane Black is an old hand at the genre having revitalised it in 1987 with Lethal Weapon in which Mel Gibson's near - suicidal detective, Riggs, is paired with Danny Glover's by - the - book Murtaugh.

Given Idris Elba's recent observation about the glass ceiling faced by black actors in England, it's nice to see films like this being made (although it should be noted that although it's an English - Nigerian co-production, it was filmed in Nigeria at writer Biyi Bandele's request).

Actor and director Bill Paxton visited the CBR Tiki Room during his first New York Comic Con to discuss his first comic book project, a digital - first original graphic novel entitled «Seven Holes For Air» by writer John J. McLaughlin («Youngblood,» «Black Swan») and fine artist Mick Reinman.

The movie, which is scheduled for release later this year, has been overseen by writer / director Shane Black.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

With a script by Black List writers Brian and Jim Kehoe, Blockers is the directorial debut of Kay Cannon, who has plenty of experience working on female - driven comedies.

Then there's the fact that an independent movie by a black director — a black queer story filtered through something other than the white gaze — rose to win the industry's most coveted prize (not to mention the adapted screenplay Oscar won by the film's writers, Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins).

In 2015, Marvel announced that it was handing the keys to Wakanda over to writer Ta - Nehisi Coates by letting him take on the Black Panther comic in advance of the eponymous character's first big - screen appearance in Captain America: Civil War and eventual solo movie.

On that special night in 2004 that I blogged about, I was introduced to writer and director Jonathan Demme by Black, and assisted Crispin Glover and Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (Go Further, Know Your Mushrooms) in and out of the screening at the personal — and quite polite — request of Jarmusch.

Writer and director Joss Whedon has always described himself as a feminist, which is fair enough considering he created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in May he was forced to deactivate his Twitter account after being deluged by complaints about Black Widow's role in his film.

«'' The Lucky One» (2012) Official Premise: Zac Efron (17 Again) stars with Taylor Schilling (TV's «Orange is the New Black») and Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award ® - nominated writer / director Scott Hicks (Shine, 1996).