Hollywood Hegemony: Recent Episodes
Sashank Sankar and Josh Palmer
Exploring Hollywood's dominance over movies with Sashank Sankar and Josh Palmer. In association with https://www.thatjuice.org/.
Losing Ground is a 1982 film directed by Kathleen Collins about the deteriorating marriage between an artist and a professor. In 2020, it was accepted into the Library of Congress and is considered a major American film. It gave the filmmakers of the L.A. rebellion a runway. Streaming now on Criterion Channel!
Edited by: Adrian Tapia
Research and Chief of Staff: Jessica Lin
First Cow is a film directed by Kelly Reichardt (Sashank Sankar's favorite director) released in 2020 about two travelers in 1800s Oregon who plan to make their fortune by stealing milk from a landowner's prized cow.
Edited by: Adrian Tapia
Research and Chief of Staff: Jessica Lin
Our first episode is about Killer of Sheep, a film written and directed by Charles Burnett. First shown in 1977 as Burnett’s thesis film at UCLA, it portrays the story of a working-class Black family living in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood in the 1970s and is considered one of the greatest American independent films ever made.
Edited by: Adrian Tapia
Research and Chief of Staff: Jessica Lin