Jul 24, 2017
Why Beasts of the Southern Wild is Metamodern
Jul 24th, 2017
Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben Zeitlin), came out of nowhere and was nominated in several categories in the 2012 Academy Awards, including the youngest-ever nominee for Best Actress (6-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis). The film – we’ll get to why we think it is a great example of metamodernism shortly – depicts the plight of a ramshackle community eking out an apparently difficult but often joyous life in an area in Louisiana known as “The Bathtub”...
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