Please bear with us as we begin our voyage into Black Sails, and Anna tries to figure out how to pronunce Boatswain (“in my defense, English words make no sense” 😤).
Dive deep (🙈haha🙈) with us into the pilot episode of the Starz show “Black Sails”. We’ll be looking at plot, gender performance, representation, pirate history, and colonisation.
How does the blank piece of paper get into Flint’s hand? What role does shame and gossip play in civilization? Where do our ideas of pirates come from? How are men depicted? How are women? What gender performances are displayed? Whose gaze is it serving?
Excuse the sounds in the background, it was hot as hell and we needed to stay hydrated (also we did not know it would be so audible every time someone puts down a glass)
📝 Shownotes: 📝
Black Sails (2014, Starz) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375692/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFll3aIbmo (Rowan Ellis)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/treasure-island-robert-louis-stevenson--78358
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/offbeat/bristols-infamous-blackbeard-real-man-behind-pirate-myth-70080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
https://youtu.be/X5Nyzma9Gp0
https://youtu.be/M3L_zJHC-6U
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/a757464/why-dehydrating-your-body-to-look-good-is-dangerous/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Anachronous_map_of_the_All_French_Empire_%281534_-1970%29.png
https://commonroomradio.com/2016/05/30/episode-i/ (Fathoms Deep Episode)
Recommendations: (Treasures found and still to be discovered)
🎼”Kiss Me More” - Doja Cat ft. SZA (https://youtu.be/0EVVKs6DQLo)
🎧 “Within the Wires” (https://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires)
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🎹Intromusic🎹:
"Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music🎹:
“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
