The much-anticipated historical drama "Emancipation" is headed to theaters this winter, and it's sure to be a powerful story. Starring Will Smith in his first role after winning an Oscar and being embroiled in a controversy at the 2022 ceremony, the movie is inspired by the true story of an enslaved man who escaped a plantation during the Civil War, later to become a living rallying point for the abolitionist cause.
Content warning: The historical sources that reported the story of "Peter," including some linked below, use the language of the time (including terminology now considered outdated and offensive) and display images of severe scarring.
Who Was "Peter" in Real Life?
According to the histories of the time, an enslaved man named Gordon (later referred to as "Whipped Peter" and given the name Peter in "Emancipation") escaped from the Louisiana plantation of the Lyons family in March 1863. After escaping to the North,...
Content warning: The historical sources that reported the story of "Peter," including some linked below, use the language of the time (including terminology now considered outdated and offensive) and display images of severe scarring.
Who Was "Peter" in Real Life?
According to the histories of the time, an enslaved man named Gordon (later referred to as "Whipped Peter" and given the name Peter in "Emancipation") escaped from the Louisiana plantation of the Lyons family in March 1863. After escaping to the North,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
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Samuel L. Jackson took to social media to send an apparent message to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Numerous public figures have voiced criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to strike down the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide. In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas wrote that the same argument used to overturn the right to abortion, due to the majority opinion that it was not protected by the 14th Amendment, could similarly be used to overturn decisions granting rights to contraception and same-sex marriage.
Notably, Thomas’ opinion did not mention the possibility of losing the right to interracial marriage, protected by the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.
In his tweet, Jackson included an apparent reference to Thomas’ own interracial marriage to wife Ginni Thomas, whom he wed in 1987. The actor also...
Samuel L. Jackson took to social media to send an apparent message to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Numerous public figures have voiced criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to strike down the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide. In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas wrote that the same argument used to overturn the right to abortion, due to the majority opinion that it was not protected by the 14th Amendment, could similarly be used to overturn decisions granting rights to contraception and same-sex marriage.
Notably, Thomas’ opinion did not mention the possibility of losing the right to interracial marriage, protected by the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.
In his tweet, Jackson included an apparent reference to Thomas’ own interracial marriage to wife Ginni Thomas, whom he wed in 1987. The actor also...
- 6/25/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: A century and a half before Kamala Harris became the first woman on an winning U.S. presidential ticket, Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president. The remarkable story of the feminist icon is the subject of a limited series, with Katherine Heigl set to portray Woodhull and executive produce. The project, titled Woodhull, hails from Oakhurst Entertainment and is currently out to showrunners.
The series will be based on multiple biographies chronicling the life of Woodhull, which Oakhurst, founded by former Brillstein Entertainment manager Jai Khanna and producer Marina Grasic, acquired earlier this year.
In 1872, Woodhull became the first woman to run for president from the Equal Rights Party, supporting women’s suffrage and equal rights; her running mate was abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and, with her sister Tennessee, the two...
The series will be based on multiple biographies chronicling the life of Woodhull, which Oakhurst, founded by former Brillstein Entertainment manager Jai Khanna and producer Marina Grasic, acquired earlier this year.
In 1872, Woodhull became the first woman to run for president from the Equal Rights Party, supporting women’s suffrage and equal rights; her running mate was abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and, with her sister Tennessee, the two...
- 12/8/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The following contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country episode 8.
Lovecraft Country puts racism at the forefront of its storytelling. Anti-Blackness is as much a character as Leti and Tic. It manifests in many ways on the show, through the protagonists’ engagement with white characters and the systems they control. And through characters like Ruby, whose internalized racism sometimes puts them odds with their own. Anti-Blackness takes on a specific visual language in episode 8, “Jig-a-Bobo”, when Diana is chased by malevolent “pickaninnies”.
Diana runs away from the line to view the body of her deceased best friend, Emmet “Bobo” Till, which no one notices. She is left alone and unprotected by all of the adults in her life and is cursed by Captain Lancaster as a result. She’s beset upon by specters only she can see, they pursue her incessantly, and she can’t tell anyone about them. The ghouls takes the form of Topsy,...
Lovecraft Country puts racism at the forefront of its storytelling. Anti-Blackness is as much a character as Leti and Tic. It manifests in many ways on the show, through the protagonists’ engagement with white characters and the systems they control. And through characters like Ruby, whose internalized racism sometimes puts them odds with their own. Anti-Blackness takes on a specific visual language in episode 8, “Jig-a-Bobo”, when Diana is chased by malevolent “pickaninnies”.
Diana runs away from the line to view the body of her deceased best friend, Emmet “Bobo” Till, which no one notices. She is left alone and unprotected by all of the adults in her life and is cursed by Captain Lancaster as a result. She’s beset upon by specters only she can see, they pursue her incessantly, and she can’t tell anyone about them. The ghouls takes the form of Topsy,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
David Crow Jul 16, 2019
Edward Zwick reflects on the legacy of Glory 30 years later, and how the film's meaning evolved even while making it.
A single tear fleeing from the cheek of Denzel Washington proved to be among the most powerful weapons on a set filled with them during Glory’s production. It was a spontaneous improvisation that Washington has long admitted was unplanned—a natural reaction to living the moment where his character, Pvt. Trip, is being whipped for an unfair charge of desertion—yet it’s perfectly apiece with the natural agony and virtue inherent in that Civil War movie. And 30 years later, it is still an unforgettable experience for director Edward Zwick as well.
“I think it’s a very interesting thing that you’re seeing there: you’re seeing his rage, but you’re also seeing his humiliation,” Zwick says during a phone interview while looking back...
Edward Zwick reflects on the legacy of Glory 30 years later, and how the film's meaning evolved even while making it.
A single tear fleeing from the cheek of Denzel Washington proved to be among the most powerful weapons on a set filled with them during Glory’s production. It was a spontaneous improvisation that Washington has long admitted was unplanned—a natural reaction to living the moment where his character, Pvt. Trip, is being whipped for an unfair charge of desertion—yet it’s perfectly apiece with the natural agony and virtue inherent in that Civil War movie. And 30 years later, it is still an unforgettable experience for director Edward Zwick as well.
“I think it’s a very interesting thing that you’re seeing there: you’re seeing his rage, but you’re also seeing his humiliation,” Zwick says during a phone interview while looking back...
- 7/15/2019
- Den of Geek
As a young man growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, future songwriting icon John Prine and his family would spend summers in Paradise, Kentucky, the Muhlenberg County birthplace of his father, Bill Prine. The younger Prine would later immortalize the coal-mining town in his song “Paradise” and has retained a strong connection to the Bluegrass State throughout his 72 years. Now, in advance of this weekend’s Kentucky Derby, which traditionally kicks off with a singalong of the song, Prine debuts his poignant and nostalgic acoustic rendition of “My Old Kentucky Home,...
- 5/1/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Lassie Lou Ahern, the versatile child actress who appeared in the Our Gang comedy shorts and played a boy in the Universal Pictures silent epic Uncle Tom's Cabin, has died. She was 97.
Ahern, who was a protégé of the American icon Will Rogers and years later taught dance to the likes of Renee Zellweger, died Thursday in Prescott, Arizona, of complications related to the flu, film preservationist Jeffrey Crouse told The Hollywood Reporter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), a film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, took almost two years to make on location alongside the Mississippi River and...
Ahern, who was a protégé of the American icon Will Rogers and years later taught dance to the likes of Renee Zellweger, died Thursday in Prescott, Arizona, of complications related to the flu, film preservationist Jeffrey Crouse told The Hollywood Reporter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), a film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, took almost two years to make on location alongside the Mississippi River and...
- 8/18/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Steve McQueen's Oscar favourite 12 Years a Slave opens at cinemas, Sarah Churchwell returns to the 1853 memoir that inspired it – one of many narratives that exposed the brutal truth about slavery, too long ignored or sentimentalised by Hollywood
In 1825 a fugitive slave named William Grimes wrote an autobiography in order to earn $500 to purchase freedom from his erstwhile master, who had discovered his whereabouts in Connecticut and was trying to remand Grimes back into slavery. At the end of his story the fugitive makes a memorable offer: "If it were not for the stripes on my back which were made while I was a slave, I would in my will, leave my skin a legacy to the government, desiring that it might be taken off and made into parchment, and then bind the constitution of glorious happy and free America." Few literary images have more vividly evoked the hypocrisy...
In 1825 a fugitive slave named William Grimes wrote an autobiography in order to earn $500 to purchase freedom from his erstwhile master, who had discovered his whereabouts in Connecticut and was trying to remand Grimes back into slavery. At the end of his story the fugitive makes a memorable offer: "If it were not for the stripes on my back which were made while I was a slave, I would in my will, leave my skin a legacy to the government, desiring that it might be taken off and made into parchment, and then bind the constitution of glorious happy and free America." Few literary images have more vividly evoked the hypocrisy...
- 1/11/2014
- by Sarah Churchwell
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the revelations from the current New York Times list of non-fiction bestsellers is how many films--many in the late-year awards derby-- have landed there. Solomon Northup's "12 Years a Slave," which was overshadowed upon its 1853 publication by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) and "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853) and was long known only in historian circles, now sits at number three on the bestseller list. Impressive, and cool. Also on the list are Nelson Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom," no doubt given a boost by the coincidence of the South African leader's death and the Weinstein film in theaters; Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson's "Lone Survivor" (the Peter Berg-directed title hits theaters on Christmas); and Laura Hillenbrand's "Lone Survivor," currently in production down under with Angelina Jolie at the helm. TV has a strong sway, too. Piper Kerman's "Orange Is the New Black,...
- 12/19/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Crushing all rumors spreading around Hollywood, "The Dark Knight Rises" starlet, Anne Hathaway and husband Adam Shulman are Not expecting a baby.
The stories began when Hathaway's brother Tom, reportedly made a joke about one day becoming an uncle or "Uncle Tom." He was apparently making a reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." during a stand-up comedy show in Brooklyn.
The trouble started when Star Magazine printed a story claiming that Hathaway's brother had let notice of her pregnancy slip.
However, the 30-year-old's representative released a statement, saying, "She is not pregnant. The joke her brother said was one day his sister will have a baby, and he will then be Uncle Tom."...
The stories began when Hathaway's brother Tom, reportedly made a joke about one day becoming an uncle or "Uncle Tom." He was apparently making a reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." during a stand-up comedy show in Brooklyn.
The trouble started when Star Magazine printed a story claiming that Hathaway's brother had let notice of her pregnancy slip.
However, the 30-year-old's representative released a statement, saying, "She is not pregnant. The joke her brother said was one day his sister will have a baby, and he will then be Uncle Tom."...
- 11/7/2013
- GossipCenter
It looks like Oscar winner Anne Hathaway won't be taking on the role of mother just yet. After Star Magazine claimed the Les Miserables star was pregnant with her first child, Hathaway's rep quickly clarified the rumors and confirmed to Us Weekly that she is not, in fact, with child. It all started when her brother, Tom, made a joke about one day becoming an uncle or "Uncle Tom" -- a reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery epic Uncle Tom's Cabin -- during a standup comedy show [...]...
- 11/6/2013
- Us Weekly
In this week's issue of New York Magazine, Frank Rich writes about how for all of the praise that 12 Years a Slave is an important film, it is unlikely to change entrenched racist opinions, just as neither Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Roots, nor Obama's election has ushered in the mythic post-racial America. In light of this, New York's Eric Benson spoke to Roots star Levar Burton, who discussed his admiration for Steve McQueen's film and his suspicion that, like Burton's iconic miniseries, 12 Years may be unlikely to change minds.You got your big break when you were cast in Roots as Kunta Kinte, a West African man who is captured and brought to America as a slave. During production, was there a sense that Roots was more than just a television mini-series? You have to remember we’re looking back through the lens of a 19-year-old.
- 11/5/2013
- by Eric Benson
- Vulture
Washington, Sept. 3: A Clemson University professor has claimed that the bestselling book of the 19th century, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', is based on a runaway slave that author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, harbored for a night in her Maine home, shortly before penning the book.
The professor in question, Susanna Ashton, has done an in-depth research on the life of John Andrew Jackson, who escaped from a South Carolina's Sumter County plantation in 1847, CBS News reported.
And, Ashton believes that the anti-slavery novel that fueled the abolitionist cause and helped put the nation on the path toward the Civil War, would never have been written, were it not for that one-night visit.
Ashton has alleged that Jackson shared his.
The professor in question, Susanna Ashton, has done an in-depth research on the life of John Andrew Jackson, who escaped from a South Carolina's Sumter County plantation in 1847, CBS News reported.
And, Ashton believes that the anti-slavery novel that fueled the abolitionist cause and helped put the nation on the path toward the Civil War, would never have been written, were it not for that one-night visit.
Ashton has alleged that Jackson shared his.
- 9/3/2013
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Before the long, slow death of the literary magazine, The Atlantic Monthly published many of the great American authors throughout its early history—and turned away several others. Now the magazine is taking advantage of a vast archive of contributors that includes Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and even some writers with fewer than three names like Mark Twain and John Muir. Via its in-house digital publishing imprint Atlantic Books, Atlantic Media will begin publishing e-book collections of famous past contributors, beginning with Twain, accompanied by an introduction from biographer Ben Tarnoff. Twain wrote for The ...
- 7/15/2013
- avclub.com
(This article contains some minor spoilers for Django Unchained and be warned that most of the clips included are Nsfw)
Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films.
I’ve only seen the film once at a screening and am sure that given the opportunity to sit down with the film on Blu-ray I will undoubtedly find even more, so the following is in no way definitive but hopefully provides some answers to for those wondering what Tarantino was referencing in Django Unchained. Also, most importantly, hopefully it will lead you to check out some of the films in question.
The most obvious film reference in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is right there in the title. Django was a 1966 ‘spaghetti western’ directed by...
Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films.
I’ve only seen the film once at a screening and am sure that given the opportunity to sit down with the film on Blu-ray I will undoubtedly find even more, so the following is in no way definitive but hopefully provides some answers to for those wondering what Tarantino was referencing in Django Unchained. Also, most importantly, hopefully it will lead you to check out some of the films in question.
The most obvious film reference in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is right there in the title. Django was a 1966 ‘spaghetti western’ directed by...
- 1/18/2013
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
PBS' 3-part, 3-hour American Experience film titled The Abolitionists, continues tonight with Part 2, after last Tuesday's broacast debut. The mini-series will finish off next week Tuesday, with Part 3, during its standard 9pm-10pm time slot. The film (which is a combo scripted/acted and documentary sequences) brings to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American...
- 1/15/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
New York -- Where once the post-holiday schedule was a blizzard of chilly reruns, January is aburst with premieres and finales.
Already, the much-adored British miniseries "Downton Abbey" has made its much-awaited season return Sundays on PBS.
On IFC on Fridays, the hilarious "Portlandia" is back for its third season of sketch comedy poking fun at the peculiarities of Portland, Ore., starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein.
And NBC's mystery melodrama "Deception" has arrived on Mondays. Meagan Good stars as a detective going undercover at the home of a rich family with whom she was once friendly, to investigate a murder within the clan.
On Tuesday, PBS' "American Experience" begins a three-week documentary miniseries, "The Abolitionists," spotlighting Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke.
Also on Tuesday, the FX drama "Justified" is returning for its fourth season of Kentucky hill-country crime-fighting led by Deputy U.
Already, the much-adored British miniseries "Downton Abbey" has made its much-awaited season return Sundays on PBS.
On IFC on Fridays, the hilarious "Portlandia" is back for its third season of sketch comedy poking fun at the peculiarities of Portland, Ore., starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein.
And NBC's mystery melodrama "Deception" has arrived on Mondays. Meagan Good stars as a detective going undercover at the home of a rich family with whom she was once friendly, to investigate a murder within the clan.
On Tuesday, PBS' "American Experience" begins a three-week documentary miniseries, "The Abolitionists," spotlighting Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke.
Also on Tuesday, the FX drama "Justified" is returning for its fourth season of Kentucky hill-country crime-fighting led by Deputy U.
- 1/8/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
One of the new programs that will comprise the winter/spring season ahead for PBS, is a 3-part, 3-hour American Experience film titled The Abolitionists. Scheduled to air starting tonight, Tuesday, January 8th, and Tuesdays thereafter (the 15th, and 22nd), from 9pm-10pm, on each night, the film (which is a combo scripted/acted and documentary sequences) will bring to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights...
- 1/8/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
One of the new programs that will comprise the winter/spring season ahead for PBS, is a 3-part, 3-hour American Experience film titled The Abolitionists. Scheduled to air starting tomorrow, Tuesday, January 8th, and Tuesdays thereafter (the 15th, and 22nd), from 9pm-10pm, on each night, the film (which is a combo scripted/acted and documentary sequences) will bring to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights...
- 1/8/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The National Film Registry has added 25 more films that will be preserved in the Library of Congress. To be included in the registry the film needs to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” They have to be at least ten years old and are chosen from a list of films nominated by the public.
There's some great films that have been added this year. We've got the original 3:10 to Yuma, The Matrix, A Christmas Story, A League of Their Own, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dirty Harry, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and several more.
Check out the full list of films that were added this year below, and you can head over to the Registry website to nominate films that you think should be added in 2013!
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Considered to be one of the best westerns of the 1950s, “3:10 to Yuma” has gained in stature since its original release as...
There's some great films that have been added this year. We've got the original 3:10 to Yuma, The Matrix, A Christmas Story, A League of Their Own, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dirty Harry, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and several more.
Check out the full list of films that were added this year below, and you can head over to the Registry website to nominate films that you think should be added in 2013!
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Considered to be one of the best westerns of the 1950s, “3:10 to Yuma” has gained in stature since its original release as...
- 12/20/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named 25 motion pictures that have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Glad to see The Spook Who Sat By The Door on this list of 25 film, selected because they are deemend “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. Also worth noting is the 1914 film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Established by Congress in 1989, the National Film Registry spotlights the importance of preserving America’s unparalleled film heritage," said the Librarian of Congress James H. Billington....
- 12/19/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Dirty Harry, and A League of Their Own will be preserved for their enduring significance in American culture at by the Library of Congress, along with A Christmas Story and some pioneering sports movies.
They are among 25 selections the library is inducting Wednesday into the National Film Registry. Congress created the program in 1989 to preserve films for their cultural or historical significance. The latest additions bring the registry to 600 films that include Hollywood features, documentaries, independent films and early experimental flicks.
The newest film chosen for preservation is 1999′s The Matrix, noted for its state-of-the-art special...
They are among 25 selections the library is inducting Wednesday into the National Film Registry. Congress created the program in 1989 to preserve films for their cultural or historical significance. The latest additions bring the registry to 600 films that include Hollywood features, documentaries, independent films and early experimental flicks.
The newest film chosen for preservation is 1999′s The Matrix, noted for its state-of-the-art special...
- 12/19/2012
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
Washington — "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Dirty Harry" and "A League of Their Own" will be preserved for their enduring significance in American culture at by the Library of Congress, along with "A Christmas Story" and some pioneering sports movies.
They are among 25 selections the library is inducting Wednesday into the National Film Registry. Congress created the program in 1989 to preserve films for their cultural or historical significance. The latest additions bring the registry to 600 films that include Hollywood features, documentaries, independent films and early experimental flicks.
The newest film chosen for preservation is 1999's "The Matrix," noted for its state-of-the-art special effects and computer-generated animation with a style that drew on Hong Kong action films and Japanese anime to change science fiction filmmaking, curators noted.
The oldest film being preserved, "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight," dates back 115 years to 1897. Film curators said the boxing movie helped establish the film industry as a successful business,...
They are among 25 selections the library is inducting Wednesday into the National Film Registry. Congress created the program in 1989 to preserve films for their cultural or historical significance. The latest additions bring the registry to 600 films that include Hollywood features, documentaries, independent films and early experimental flicks.
The newest film chosen for preservation is 1999's "The Matrix," noted for its state-of-the-art special effects and computer-generated animation with a style that drew on Hong Kong action films and Japanese anime to change science fiction filmmaking, curators noted.
The oldest film being preserved, "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight," dates back 115 years to 1897. Film curators said the boxing movie helped establish the film industry as a successful business,...
- 12/19/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Title: Django Unchained The Weinstein Company Director: Quentin Tarantino Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson Screened at: Regal Union Square, NYC, 12/6/12 Opens: December 25, 2012 The history textbooks have it wrong—not too wrong, but still. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” depicting the brutality inflicted on slaves by Simon Legree, did not start the Civil War despite the belief by our sixteenth president that it did. The book helped. The election of Lincoln did not start the Civil War. It helped even more, but it didn’t start the war. Django started it. But don’t take my word for it. [ Read More ]
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- 12/12/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
One of the new programs that will comprise the winter/spring season ahead for PBS, is a 3-part, 3-hour American Experience film titled The Abolitionists. Scheduled to air on Tuesdays, January 8, 15, and 22, from 9pm-10pm, on each night, the film (which is a combo scripted/acted and documentary sequences) will bring to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist...
- 12/6/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
An exciting winter/spring season is ahead for PBS, including the return of fan faves like Downton Abbey; and lots of new original programming, including The Abolitionists, which brings to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Also, look for documentary pick-ups like Soul Food Junkies, The Central Park Five, and 180 Days: Inside An American High School (all covered on S&A), and more. The full lineup follows below via press release from PBS: PBS Announces Winter/Spring 2013 Lineup - Including...
- 12/6/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Sacha Baron Cohen should win the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m not joking; hear me out on this — narrative works of art have always had an extraordinary power to influence public opinion.Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, famously said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!”; public outcry after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle led to congress passing the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and a discourse about the treatment of immigrants in society; and The China Syndrome, in conjunction with the meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor two weeks after the film's release, mobilized much of the citizenry against nuclear energy, resulting in far less electricity being produced from nuclear power than had been planned. The representation of fictional characters in print or on screen allows the viewer to...
- 5/16/2012
- by Gavin Polone
- Vulture
Fans of SyFy’s ever popular show Ghost Hunters will no doubt be pleased to learn that Season 6 Pt 1 is all set to hit 3 disc DVD and Blu-ray on September 13th from Image Entertainment. So if you missed out on any spooky shenanigans this will be your chance to catch up!
“Ghost Hunters,” America’s favorite paranormal investigation series, brings ever more astonishing discoveries, eerie historical facts and tingling revelations to light with the release of “Ghost Hunters: Season 6: Part 1.” On September 13, Image Entertainment once again joins forces with Grant Wilson, Jason Hawes and The Atlantic Paranormal Society as they investigate and reveal shocking stories of the netherworld. The DVD set will be available for an Srp of $24.98. The series will also be available on Blu-ray™ for the first time, at an Srp of $29.98. The 3-disc set includes the series’ 100th live broadcast, deleted scenes and additional creepy content.
“Ghost Hunters,” America’s favorite paranormal investigation series, brings ever more astonishing discoveries, eerie historical facts and tingling revelations to light with the release of “Ghost Hunters: Season 6: Part 1.” On September 13, Image Entertainment once again joins forces with Grant Wilson, Jason Hawes and The Atlantic Paranormal Society as they investigate and reveal shocking stories of the netherworld. The DVD set will be available for an Srp of $24.98. The series will also be available on Blu-ray™ for the first time, at an Srp of $29.98. The 3-disc set includes the series’ 100th live broadcast, deleted scenes and additional creepy content.
- 8/12/2011
- by Jude
- The Liberal Dead
ICM, which has set up dozens of option deals for its client The New York Times and which just recently started making deals for New York Magazine, this week has signed The Atlantic. The agency will package the magazine's articles for film, TV and online. Founded in 1857, the magazine has over the years published works by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Charles Portis, Philip Roth and Dennis Lehane. They've had articles optioned for film and TV, but now they have an agency proactively shopping present and past content to Hollywood. ICM will rep all Atlantic Media Group properties, including National Journal Group and Government Executive.
- 8/10/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline TV
ICM, which has set up dozens of option deals for its client The New York Times and which just recently started making deals for New York Magazine, this week has signed The Atlantic. The agency will package the magazine's articles for film, TV and online. Founded in 1857, the magazine has over the years published works by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Charles Portis, Philip Roth and Dennis Lehane. They've had articles optioned for film and TV, but now they have an agency proactively shopping present and past content to Hollywood. ICM will rep all Atlantic Media Group properties, including National Journal Group and Government Executive.
- 8/10/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Today in history… March 20th, 1852… Harriet Beecher Stowe’s problematic and heavily criticized, yet influential anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was first published. Since then, we’ve seen a number of film adaptations made, and its influence can be found in D. W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation, amongst others. Though I doubt many have seen this appropriation of the story – a scene from the 1956 Academy Award-winning film, The King and I, starring Yul Bryner and Deborah Kerr. Don’t ask me why, but, as a kid, this one was of the few films my parents had lying around the house on VHS.
- 3/20/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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