Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Zora Bikangaga's links:
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Zora's short "No More White Women" -- vimeo.com/267124236
Dopetown 3000 (comedy hip hop podcast) -- http://wearecampfire.media/podcasts/dopetown-3000/
Cody Ziglar's links:
twitter.com/yayforzig
"Be Civil" directed by Cody: youtube.com/watch?v=utp5qfCQLPo
Works Cited:
- Gillette "We Believe - The Best Men Can Be"
- Victoria's Secret Superbowl Commerical
- "Uncharted" Peleton Commercial
- Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin - youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0fBLD5cuA
- Democracy Now interview w Boots Riley - youtube.com/watch?v=yUAIC7l4mmI
- Oscars: Academy Conversations, interview w Boots Riley and the cast of Sorry To Bother You - youtube.com/watch?v=WreXRihMTlg
- CBS This Morning Boots Riley Interview - youtube.com/watch?v=Q00Dl8UHvPU
- Chandra Arthur "The Cost of Code Switching" youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3hRq2RnNI
- Hammer Museum, Boots Riley Q&A - youtube.com/watch?v=KbC0e8iXybk
- Sorry To Bother You on McSweenys - store.mcsweeneys.net/products/sorry-to-bother-you
- Sundance Institute Press Release - sundance.org/blogs/news/projects-selected-for-2015-june-directors-and-screenwriters-labs
- The Brady Bunch, ABC, 1969
- bell hooks interview footage, CBS, October 24, 1995
- bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship,”
from Movies and Mass Culture, p249, 1996, Rutgers; originally publisehd in: Black Looks: Race and Representation, Boston: South End Press, 1992
- 2019 Academy Awards, ABC
- “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” by Langdon Winner, in Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980
- HOLC 1936 security map of Philadelphia showing redlining of lower income neighborhoods. via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
- Photo of protesters on Realtors Assoc steps & photo of marching protesters, US HUD archived video - youtube.com/watch?v=fUc5yPAOZUg
- "Facebook Vowed to End Discriminatory Housing Ads. Suit Says It Didn't" by Charles V. Bagli - nytimes.com/2018/03/27/nyregion/facebook-housing-ads-discrimination-lawsuit.html
- WHY ZUCKERBERG’S 14-YEAR APOLOGY TOUR HASN’T FIXED FACEBOOK by ZEYNEP TUFEKCI - wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook
- Frontline: The Facebook Dilema, Pt 2 - pbs.org/video/the-facebook-dilemma-part-two-iev1xh
- Silicon Valley Sweatshops - thenation.com/article/silicon-valley-sweatshops
- "Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report" by Shannon Liao- theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse-jobs-worker-conditions-bathroom-breaks
- New Front in the Labor War Between Uber and Its Drivers by Samuel Moran - theregreview.org/2018/12/18/moran-new-front-labor-war-uber-drivers
- "In the Film Sorry to Bother You, We See How Luxuries Like RVs Become Necessities" by Charles Mudede - thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/30/29975309/in-the-film-sorry-to-bother-you-we-see-how-luxuries-like-rvs-become-necessities
- "You mean a WOMAN can open it?" ad, 1953 Alcoa Aluminum advertisement
- Cop shot wife, from Al.com twitter - twitter.com/aldotcom/status/1099419319186919424
- Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech - archive.org/details/MartinLutherKingIHaveADreamSpeech
- Mike Pence MLK Tweet - twitter.com/vp/status/1087434356241690624?lang=en
- Air Traffic Controllers Union Sue Trump Over Government Shutdown | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC - youtube.com/watch?v=SRi63nd6qLE
- Tucker grills Ocasio-Cortez adviser over 'Green New Deal' - youtube.com/watch?v=0qyx6eDkrmw
- 3 Act Structure from The Screenwriter’s Workbook, p78 by Syd Field, Bantam Dell 2006
- Screenplay by Syd Field, Dell Publishing Company, 1979
- Story by Robert McKee, Methuen, 1998
- Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, Michael Wiese Productions, 2013
- Captain Marvel, 2019, Marvel Studios/Disney, dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
- Black Panther, 2018, Marvel Studios/Disney, dir. Ryan Coogler
- Blackkklansman, 2018, Blumhouse Productions/Focus Features, dir. Spike Lee
- Man of Steel, 2013, Warner Brothers/DC, dir. Zack Snyder
- Green Book, 2018, Participant Media/Universal Pictures, dir. Peter Farrelly
- “Sorry to Bother You Is Too Real (Not Surreal) for the Oscars” by Charles Mudede in The Stranger, Jan 22, 2019
- Fight Club, 1999, Fox 2000 Pictures/20th Century Fox, dir. David Fincher
- Avatar, 2009, Lightstorm/20th Century Fox, dir. James Cameron
- Transformers, 2007, Hasbro/DreamWorks Pictures, dir. Michael Bay
SPOILERS! Please watch the movie first! -- Directly support me and see this video without ads at nebula.tv/videos/maggie-mae-fish-sorry-to-bother-you-film-analysis-with-maggie-mae-fish
Patreon.com/MaggieMaeFish
Twitter.com/MaggieMaeFish
Twitch.tv/MaggieMaeFish
Zora Bikangaga's links:
twitter.com/zorabikangaga
Zora's short "No More White Women" -- vimeo.com/267124236
Dopetown 3000 (comedy hip hop podcast) -- http://wearecampfire.media/podcasts/dopetown-3000/
Cody Ziglar's links:
twitter.com/yayforzig
"Be Civil" directed by Cody: youtube.com/watch?v=utp5qfCQLPo
Works Cited:
- Gillette "We Believe - The Best Men Can Be"
- Victoria's Secret Superbowl Commerical
- "Uncharted" Peleton Commercial
- Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin - youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0fBLD5cuA
- Democracy Now interview w Boots Riley - youtube.com/watch?v=yUAIC7l4mmI
- Oscars: Academy Conversations, interview w Boots Riley and the cast of Sorry To Bother You - youtube.com/watch?v=WreXRihMTlg
- CBS This Morning Boots Riley Interview - youtube.com/watch?v=Q00Dl8UHvPU
- Chandra Arthur "The Cost of Code Switching" youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3hRq2RnNI
- Hammer Museum, Boots Riley Q&A - youtube.com/watch?v=KbC0e8iXybk
- Sorry To Bother You on McSweenys - store.mcsweeneys.net/products/sorry-to-bother-you
- Sundance Institute Press Release - sundance.org/blogs/news/projects-selected-for-2015-june-directors-and-screenwriters-labs
- The Brady Bunch, ABC, 1969
- bell hooks interview footage, CBS, October 24, 1995
- bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship,”
from Movies and Mass Culture, p249, 1996, Rutgers; originally publisehd in: Black Looks: Race and Representation, Boston: South End Press, 1992
- 2019 Academy Awards, ABC
- “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” by Langdon Winner, in Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980
- HOLC 1936 security map of Philadelphia showing redlining of lower income neighborhoods. via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
- Photo of protesters on Realtors Assoc steps & photo of marching protesters, US HUD archived video - youtube.com/watch?v=fUc5yPAOZUg
- "Facebook Vowed to End Discriminatory Housing Ads. Suit Says It Didn't" by Charles V. Bagli - nytimes.com/2018/03/27/nyregion/facebook-housing-ads-discrimination-lawsuit.html
- WHY ZUCKERBERG’S 14-YEAR APOLOGY TOUR HASN’T FIXED FACEBOOK by ZEYNEP TUFEKCI - wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook
- Frontline: The Facebook Dilema, Pt 2 - pbs.org/video/the-facebook-dilemma-part-two-iev1xh
- Silicon Valley Sweatshops - thenation.com/article/silicon-valley-sweatshops
- "Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report" by Shannon Liao- theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse-jobs-worker-conditions-bathroom-breaks
- New Front in the Labor War Between Uber and Its Drivers by Samuel Moran - theregreview.org/2018/12/18/moran-new-front-labor-war-uber-drivers
- "In the Film Sorry to Bother You, We See How Luxuries Like RVs Become Necessities" by Charles Mudede - thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/30/29975309/in-the-film-sorry-to-bother-you-we-see-how-luxuries-like-rvs-become-necessities
- "You mean a WOMAN can open it?" ad, 1953 Alcoa Aluminum advertisement
- Cop shot wife, from Al.com twitter - twitter.com/aldotcom/status/1099419319186919424
- Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech - archive.org/details/MartinLutherKingIHaveADreamSpeech
- Mike Pence MLK Tweet - twitter.com/vp/status/1087434356241690624?lang=en
- Air Traffic Controllers Union Sue Trump Over Government Shutdown | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC - youtube.com/watch?v=SRi63nd6qLE
- Tucker grills Ocasio-Cortez adviser over 'Green New Deal' - youtube.com/watch?v=0qyx6eDkrmw
- 3 Act Structure from The Screenwriter’s Workbook, p78 by Syd Field, Bantam Dell 2006
- Screenplay by Syd Field, Dell Publishing Company, 1979
- Story by Robert McKee, Methuen, 1998
- Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, Michael Wiese Productions, 2013
- Captain Marvel, 2019, Marvel Studios/Disney, dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
- Black Panther, 2018, Marvel Studios/Disney, dir. Ryan Coogler
- Blackkklansman, 2018, Blumhouse Productions/Focus Features, dir. Spike Lee
- Man of Steel, 2013, Warner Brothers/DC, dir. Zack Snyder
- Green Book, 2018, Participant Media/Universal Pictures, dir. Peter Farrelly
- “Sorry to Bother You Is Too Real (Not Surreal) for the Oscars” by Charles Mudede in The Stranger, Jan 22, 2019
- Fight Club, 1999, Fox 2000 Pictures/20th Century Fox, dir. David Fincher
- Avatar, 2009, Lightstorm/20th Century Fox, dir. James Cameron
- Transformers, 2007, Hasbro/DreamWorks Pictures, dir. Michael Bay
