A Notebook on Sinners

Last Thursday the day after checking out Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners, I sent out message to the folks in our African American literary studies (AALS) crew to see what they thought about the film. We then began participating in an expansive thread.  

With permission from participants, I’ve posted parts of what we discussed:

• Some Initial Impressions (J. White, Dixon, E. Cali, R. Holmon)

• Women and Sinners (N. Dixon, H. Rambsy, C. Reed, E. Cali, J. White) 

• More on Annie (R. Holmon, C. Reed, E. Cali)

• More on Mary (C. Reed)

• Seeing Sinners in IMAX (D. Spencer)

• That music scene (H. Rambsy, N. Dixon, E. Cali)

• The Power of Non-Western information (J. White)

• Smoke, Stack, Black Men, and Movement (J. White, H. Rambsy)

• Toward a Sinners Nonfiction Reading List (H. Rambsy, C. Reed, D. Hall)

• Toward a Sinners Poetry Reading List (C. Reed, H. Rambsy)

• Assimilation and Temptation (R. Holmon)

Related:

• Ryan Coogler, C. Liegh McInnis, and Black Convergences

• Ryan Coogler, Amiri Baraka, and Black Music