Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Kam Winston is an African American Studies senior at Dartmouth College who was not a horror fan before Sinners. In this episode, he talks about what drew him in despite that — the film's visual beauty, its debt to Gordon Parks's photography, and the scene near the end where a son explains why he forgives the man who killed his father. His reading of how Sinners handles Black masculinity and the inheritance of pain is precise, unexpected, and arrived at entirely on his own. This is what it looks like when a student's close reading does work the scholars haven't done yet. This episode is hosted by Dr. Brittney Frantece, Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College, and is produced by the Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life in collaboration with the Dartmouth Media Production Group.
Kam Winston is an African American Studies senior at Dartmouth College who was not a horror fan before Sinners. In this episode, he talks about what drew him in despite that — the film's visual beauty, its debt to Gordon Parks's photography, and the scene near the end where a son explains why he forgives the man who killed his father. His reading of how Sinners handles Black masculinity and the inheritance of pain is precise, unexpected, and arrived at entirely on his own. This is what it looks like when a student's close reading does work the scholars haven't done yet. This episode is hosted by Dr. Brittney Frantece, Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College, and is produced by the Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life in collaboration with the Dartmouth Media Production Group.
