Recontextualizing and reckoning: Middlebury Black film series screens “Foxy Brown”
By Kiara Dookie | March 5, 2026“The film(s) the man doesn’t want you to see” is printed boldly across the poster, cueing a familiar logic in Black film history: exposure does not guarantee legitimacy. It gestures toward the 1970s film landscape, a decade often canonised through the rise of New Hollywood auteurs, even as a parallel ...



