Space Jam (1996) is set for a big sequel this year - expectations and nostalgia are running extraordinarily high for a movie that never claimed to be much more than a 90 minute adaptation of a Nike commercial from 1992.
And yet, Space Jam IS so much more than that!
In this episode of the podcast, Phil and Tom walk you through the ways in which the film serves as an inadvertent Cliff’s Notes on the Blackness of American entertainment - and exploitation that has gone hand-in-hand with that almost since the beginning.
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and starring basketball player Michael Jordan. The film presents a fictionalized account of what happened between Jordan's initial retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his 1995 comeback, in which he is enlisted by the Looney Tunes to help them win a basketball match against a group of aliens who intend to enslave them as attractions for their theme park. (via Wikipedia)
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