NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast: Selma and the Use of Dramatic License in Historical Dramas

January 22, 2015 6:00 PM

This week on Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR Monkey See's Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon are joined by NPR Code Switch's Gene Demby to discuss the Civil Rights Era film Selma. They'll discuss the direction by Ava DuVernay, the Oprah of it all, and how well it brings Martin Luther King, Jr. to life. Then they'll discuss other historical dramas and the advantages and limitations of dramatic license. All that plus What's Making Us Happy this week.
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See also FanFare: Selma for discussion of this movie.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:03 PM on January 22, 2015