Blog Task for meeting in Week 9 (17 November)

Write your own review of the film 12 Years a Slave (2013), assessing the significance of its portrayal of slavery 150 years after emancipation.

 

Interesting Links

 'Why I wouldn't see 12 Years a Slave with a White Person' , The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/why-i-wouldnt-see-em-12-years-a-slave-em-with-a-white-person/281883/ 

'How 12 Years a Slave Gets History Right: By Getting It Wrong', The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/how-em-12-years-a-slave-em-gets-history-right-by-getting-it-wrong/280911/ 

'How Accurate Is 12 Years a Slave?', Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/17/_12_years_a_slave_true_story_fact_and_fiction_in_mostly_accurate_movie_about.html 

'12 Years a Slave: Two and a half hours of boredom',The Commentator

 http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4619/12_years_a_slave_two_and_a_half_hours_of_boredom

Propaganda Is Not ‘Reality’ or ‘Truth’, The American Spectator

http://spectator.org/articles/56909/propaganda-not-%E2%80%98reality-or-%E2%80%98truth 

'The real reason no one’s talking about 12 Years a Slave', The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/film-awards/the-real-reason-no-ones-talking-about-12-years-a-slave/article17116667/