side-eyeing problematic representations of whiteness in Film with Square Cymbals…

Dante Foley (Square Cymbals on IG and YouTube) is fantastic drummer, thinker, and friend. I was lucky they interviewed me as a kind of academic supplement to their recent video essay, “Whiplash, One Battle After Another and Hollywood’s Cultural Anxiety.” Like – “Hey, AJ – you wanna talk shit about La La Land and Whiplash in a moderately scholarly way?” SIGN ME UP. Check out their brilliant cultural criticism and rethink what you know about white saviors in films about Black culture and revolutionary politics.