American Fiction, starts off so well it’s exhilarating. Based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, it’s a scathing satire of the god-awful trap of being creatively gifted and black in ...
scathing satire in the same manner as, say, Bamboozled or Paul Beatty's The Sellout. What he's doing with his directorial debut American Fiction, however, goes way beyond a simple adaptation.
“The American Society of Magical Negroes” Director Explains Use of Satire "The American Society of Magical Negroes" director and cast sits down with BLACK ENTERPRISE "The Culture Shift" to ...