CINEMATIC FANTASIES AND POLITICAL FAIRY TALES
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the new Marvel film Black Panther and the response to it, was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a shorter piece on the significance of questions.) It was published in the Observer, 18 February 2018, under the headline ‘Black Panther has a burden that no superhero is strong enough to carry’. I like my fictional heroes laced with moral ambiguity. When I was young, my favourite sci-fi series was not […]
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