Show Notes
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This week, the DPP boys check out Reginald Hudlin's 1990 House Party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Party_(1990_film)].
The film launched a long-running series of coming-of-age comedies under the House Party title, terminating in 2023.
Centring around the exploits of rap duo Kid n' Play, the film did much to introduce hip-hop into the American mainstream. It also foregrounds African American middle-class suburban life on film in a groundbreaking way.
Where did the film's subtle hints at pan-Africanism and 1990s affluence lead in the 2000s and 2010s?
Find out in today's episode.
More from Death is a Photograph
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After a year, your hosts are ready to wrap Gen X. Season One is at a close. What did we learn about the self-professedly forgotten generation? What has Banksy to do with the spirit of the age? And, most importantly we answer the question that started it all: how did the dirty girls end up in the K-Hive?
DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American Movie (1999).
Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them: millennials.