Obras de Shea Serrano
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed (2015) 247 copias
Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (2017) 200 copias
Where Do You Think We Are? 6 copias
CONFERENCE ROOM, FIVE MINUTES 5 copias
Action Hero Scouting Report 1 copia
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And yet, the discussions are enriched when framed this way -- precisely because Serrano takes seriously the situations created in movies, and across movies, and proceeds to examine critically what it means for viewers to understand those situations and characters as presented on the screen. The implications are ridiculous if taken literally: Ethan Suplee's character in TItans evidently was relatively open-minded (I haven't screened the film myself), and has no bearing whatsoever on Suplee's character in American History X, a rabid and violent neo-Nazi. It makes little sense to pretend either Suplee or his characters are the same person across these movies, yet Serrano does just that: he argues Suplee's character in Titans becomes radicalized by the football camp, ending up the loathsome person we see later in History.
But Serrano does this knowingly, and it affords him the opportunity to examine many facets of film, from production history to screenplay adaptations, from critical & popular response to a comparison to historical events upon which the films were based. In effect, Serrano teases out various implications, many of them unintended or perhaps merely sidestepped by those involved in making the film, and puts them front & center. It pushes up some interesting questions about film, yes, but moreso about the world we live in, and in which the films were made. And that made it far more interesting to me than at first I anticipated it would. In the instance mentioned above, the point isn't so much Serrano's "conclusion" about Suplee's character, as it is the discussion prompted by the question, and the observations made along the way, about systemic racism and racist behavior exhibited by some people and opposed by others. The question is an amusing agent provocateur, and successfully flushed out some interesting observations.
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The only film I recall adding to my watch list is Booksmart. I've not yet screened it.… (más)