The Politics of Black Panther

A look inside the Wakandan Ethnostate. (SPOILERS)

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Sources

Budget

https://screenrant.com/black-panther-marvel-budget/

Review embargo

https://screenrant.com/black-panther-review-embargo-date-release/

Early reactions

https://screenrant.com/black-panther-early-reactions-social-media/

Imax presales

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/advanced-imax-sales-black-panther-1202695859/

Anticipate a big opening weekend

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/box-office-black-panther-opening-weekend-tracking-1202696018/

Most Tweeted movie

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/black-panther-twitter-record-2018-1202695436/

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-movie-projector-black-panther-20180214-story.html

https://twitter.com/jenyamato/status/958219135623741440

http://time.com/black-panther/

Cover of Time

http://www.outrightgeekery.com/2018/02/09/black-panther-makes-cover-time-magazine/

Variety review

http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/black-panther-review-1202682942/

Washington Post

https://web.archive.org/web/20180211151444/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/black-panther-is-exhilarating-groundbreaking-and-more-than-worth-the-wait/2018/02/09/5bff1d4c-0916-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html

New York Times

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/movies/black-panther-review-movie.html?referrer=google_kp&referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F

NME’s glowing, 4-star review

http://www.nme.com/reviews/movie/black-panther-film-review

100% good reviews from Critics

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/black-panther-rotten-tomatoes-reviews-100-per-cent-marvel-chadwick-boseman-michael-b-jordan-a8198316.html

First bad review

https://mashable.com/2018/02/08/black-panther-negative-review-rotten-tomatoes/#1sl___KJKkqO

Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_panther_2018/

Australia, you did this

http://junkee.com/black-panther-reviews-australia/146487

Black panther wrongly predicts black panther

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-M8vE55Pu8

A sensible perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOYWo-TFFyc

Sucking black joy out of the theatre

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/963423564144590848/photo/1

No whiteys reviews

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100727076989367&set=pcb.1641301112594529&type=3&theater

Ethnofeed

https://www.facebook.com/TheAltCentrist/posts/237201536822706

Black pride

https://youtu.be/_iL1IMcA15M?t=506

First black superhero

https://youtu.be/HTtga5VagXg?t=52

Effects of colonisation

https://youtu.be/E4uV9l1H85A?t=80

Beautiful display of melanin

https://youtu.be/E4uV9l1H85A?t=256

Universal themes while culturally specific

https://youtu.be/jlJUvFtuSNI?t=586

Longevity of the ethnostate

https://youtu.be/jlJUvFtuSNI?t=1204

https://youtu.be/V72f22rPuqc?t=108

Cracks begin to appear

https://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-misses-another-easy-representation-opportunity-w-1822929417

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/10/covert-operations-cia-works-hollywood-171022101533765.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mv554x/militias-in-central-african-republic-are-using-black-magic-to-protect-them-from-rockets

Richard Spencer can’t wait to see this film

https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/963227426204585984

Winston Duke’s alt-right propaganda

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/872997-ryan-coogler-winston-duke-and-letitia-wright-talk-black-panther-at-comic-con#/slide/1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons

M’Baku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Ape

How they solved the Man-Ape issue

http://ew.com/movies/2017/07/13/black-panther-mbaku-man-ape-issue/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1386542/Do-you-still-throw-spears-at-each-other-asks-Prince.html