<p>Discussion of Mo' Better Blues, with emphasis on the place of children, childhood, motherhood, and women's work in the formation of masculine identity. In particular, I'm interested in how pleasure and play open up new horizons not just for masculine identity formation, but for the relationships between men and for relationships between men and women that are not repetition-sites of phallic struggle.</p>

Discussion of Mo' Better Blues, with emphasis on the place of children, childhood, motherhood, and women's work in the formation of masculine identity. In particular, I'm interested in how pleasure and play open up new horizons not just for masculine identity formation, but for the relationships between men and for relationships between men and women that are not repetition-sites of phallic struggle.

11 - Childhood, Women's Work, and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues

20-30 minute reflections on particular Spike Lee films, from School Daze up through Black KkKlansman - précis for a book-length study of Lee's cinema, reflections on a course I've taught a number of times at Amherst College and University of Maryland. In these podcast pieces, I pay particular attention to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they emerge inside particular films and in the history-memory of African American life. How does Lee's cinema think? How does sound and image help us understand representation of Black bodies, Black people, and Black life? What are Lee's innovations, what challenges does he present us with in sound and image? And how can we see questions of masculinity, gender and racial formation, historical violence, and institutional violence evolve across his decades of filmmaking?

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11 - Childhood, Women's Work, and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues