This week, it’s all about an animated animal allegory for race relations, Britney Spears’ feminist film and money money money.
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/03/zootopia.mp3This week, we talk about how Zootopia is surprisingly the most woke movie of the year:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/14/469914141/in-tackling-bias-in-policing-zootopia-veers-into-the-uncanny-valley
We talk about what everyone shies away from talking about: money!
We discover how feminist the production behind Britney Spears’ Crossroads was:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/shonda-rhimes-on-the-making-of-crossroads-britney-spears
Extra credit homework: Read my live blog of the clunker masterpiece:
http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/11/23/crossroads-a-live-blog-of-britney-spears-one-and-only-movie/
And we cap things off with not one, but two pop diva throwbacks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0wbtk6_vpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEauWw9ZGrA
Until next week!
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