On this episode of The Cineamerican Dream, hosts Isabel and Seth discuss the 2013 Best Picture winning movie 12 Years a Slave and to what extent it is a foreign film— if at all.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 film shot by Steve Mqueen, a Black, British director. The film is adapted from an 1853 slave memoir of the same name, and tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man living in the North who is kidnapped and sold into slavery at the beginning of the film. Northup’s enslavement lasts a grueling 12 years, and he is moved among a few plantations in the American south, meeting several different slave masters and slaves along the way. Though mainly known for its graphic, authentic display of American slavery, the film also highlights other themes like white hypocrisy in the American South.
Click the link to listen along as Seth and Isabel discuss these themes, and more, on this week’s episode of the Cineamerican Dream!
