On this episode of Lights to Low, listen to two white guys talk about another white guy who directed a movie about the female-centered, southern Black experience in the first few decades of the twentieth century.  We talk race, misogyny, faith, and Spielberg’s transition from sharks and aliens to historical dramas.

On this episode of Lights to Low, listen to two white guys talk about another white guy who directed a movie about the female-centered, southern Black experience in the first few decades of the twentieth century. We talk race, misogyny, faith, and Spielberg’s transition from sharks and aliens to historical dramas.

009: The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)

Lights to Low is a filmography podcast, in which we will survey the works—film by film, every week—of some of cinema’s greatest directors, from their first film to their last.

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009: The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)

009: The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)