"django unchained" made 160 million dollars at the box office. "lincoln" made $182 million. "12 years a slave," made $56 million, but only cost $20 million to make. this sort of mini-upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about depictions of slavery and freedom in film and other forms of media. in television, documentaries, and youtube shorts, different series. we are continuing the conversation today. all of our panelists are fierce scholars of the american south and of race and gender. they have also written about, reviewed, taught courses on, and consulted for films about slavery. catherine clinton has been teaching at queens university belfast since 2006, but will be coming back to the united states this fall to be a professor of u.s. history at the university of texas san antonio. she is the author of numerous books about gender, race, and the civil war, including biographies of mary todd lincoln. and harriet tubman. she has edited the diaries and memoirs of susie king taylor. professor clinton served on advisory committees to t

onup to jango unchained.it hollywood in the 1930s was oo very much odentrenched in the sn of lost cause approaches to slavery. they are background figures. they are supporting casts. masts they are often clear economic nd are serving their matters and mistresses who are also benign. not much had changed by 1946 when walt disney look on uncle remus in a children's film. most of you i'm sure know the song of the south despite the fact that it is not zrib zrdist. it took until the early 70s til before it was banned. was early 70s when walt disney finally mounted -- gave into ey pressure of its political wh incorrectness.at i i haves seen the video. it was smuggled into me from ja japan wherepa you can see it on subtitles. the japanese are intrigued by i all things southern as well. the subtileds.n i think it is an interesting film because it is a mile tone of sorts as politically correct as it is -- politically incorrect asal it is, it is alsa the first film to take a black character and makece him the central c

""django unchained"" made 160 milli million. "lincoln" made 182 million. "12 years a slade made $26 million but only cost $26 million to make. roughly the same. this mini upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about the depictions of slavery and freedom of film and other forms of media, visual media and television and documentary, youtube shorts and different series. we are continue iing that conversation today. all our panels are fierce scholars of the american south and gender and they have written and reviewed, taught courses on and consulted on films about slavery. kathryn clinton has been teaching at queens university belfast since 2006 but will be coming back to the united states this fall to be the professor of u.s. history at the university of texas san antonio. she's the author of numerous books about gender, race and the american civil war including biographies of mary todd lincoln, harriet tubman and mary kimball and susan king taylor and mary chestnut. professor clinton serves on the virginia commission

then we come to "12 years a djangod and even " unchained." hardware they do so well is feature female characters who take on as much or more abuse than their male counterparts. quentin tarantino has the most macho treatment of slavery ever put on film, at least since o," a of spaghetti western and racial revenge fantasy. as far-fetched and over-the-top as on many fronts, the plot is fueled by an attempt to rescue django's much tormented late wife, played by kerry washington, which makes for the film's most poignant moments but also its absurdly happy ending, as they blow up the plantation and write happily into the sunset. in 12 years, it is the harassment inflicted on cassidy by her master and mistress that gets far more attention in the film than in solomon northrup's narrative. this is something that has been expanded on by the screenwriters. as you well know, it earned an .cademy award for the actress it is also one of the few films other than "roots" that has dramatized the separation of mothers from their children. you all remember the

"django unchained" made $160 million domestic. "lincoln" made $182 million. "12 years a slave" made $26 million but only cost $26 million to make. it made twice as much as its budget. roughly the same as the other two films. this mini upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about the depictions of slavery and freedom of film and other forms of media, visual media and television and documentary, youtube shorts and different series. we are continuing that conversation today. all of our panelists are fierce scholars of the american south and race and gender. they have also written about, reviewed, taught courses on and consulted for films about slavery. kathryn clinton has been teaching at queens university belfast since 2006 but will be coming back to the united states this fall to be the professor of u.s. history at the university of texas, san antonio. she's the author of numerous books about gender, race and the american civil war including biographies of mary todd lincoln, harriet tubman and fannie kimball and has ed

jengo unchained made $160 million. lincoln made $182 million. 12 years a slave only made 56 million, but it only cost 20 million to make. so it made twice as much of its budget, which is ruffly the same. so this sort of mini up surge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion. and then also in youtube shorts and different series. we are continuing that conversation today. all of our panelists have written about, reviewed, taught courses on and consulted for films about slavery. catherine clinton will be coming back to the united states this fall. she's the author of numerous books about gender, race and the american civil war, including biographies and she's edited the diaries and memoirs of suzi king taylor and mary chestnut. professor clinton serves on the advisory committees and the virginia ses quill centennial commission. i'm imagining we're going to hear about some of that experience today. john insgo is university professor at the yooumpbunivers georgia. he is the co-article thor of appalachian civil war. he is

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about it.he world five weeks later, he comes on in the morning to unchain his car. the car is gone. gone, buts the car the chains are neatly coiled around the steel. the door hasn't been forced. there are no scratches on the lox. anthony goes into mourning for about three months. one day, he comes downstairs and has gone past the stage of grief. on the windshield is a note. the note says, if we want it, we will take it. you can't defend against everything. don't let the best be the enemy of the good. remember what you can achieve, and security is all about that. it is all about assessing your risk saying, how can i mitigate this risk most effectively? missioni continue my within that security paradigm? >> one of the important functions we have in dhs is to help people understand their vulnerabilities, understand the threats and the consequences. by others out there. in each of those areas, what we are dealing with is an environment of scope, scale, and speed that is sort of a typical of other threat environments. i agree with adam that there is a breath of things that have to occur.

the president is set to release executive actions and then furthers the narrative he's an unchained emperor. does this further -- does this add many more logs under the fire that burns to impeach the president? >> two things at play. democrats like the impeachment talk and will fan the flames and raise money off of it to the extent they can. i do think that should the president come out with a fairly forceful and aggressive set of actions on the immigration issue, come the end of august or early september, there will be more people like steve king who talk about it openly. now the republican leadership said this is silly and manufactured. but they also said stuff like that with respect to the government shutdown and it did happen. while i do agree with house speaker boehner that this is largely a democratic pushed issue. i wouldn't say that in five weeks time or six weeks time it's going to be just a democratic pushed issue. >> of chicken vind liu and impeachment. thank you -- >> i'm hungry. >> i'm starving now. >> almost dinner time. >> e.j. dionne, thank you as always. >> you too. >> we h

jengo unchained made $160 million.oln made $182 million. 12 years a slave only made 56 million, but it only cost 20 million to make. so it made twice as much of its budget, which is ruffly the same. so this sort of mini up surge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion. and then also in youtube shorts and different series. we are continuing that conversation today. all of our panelists have written about, reviewed, taught