'Who Are the Sinners?' Professors Rufus Burnett and Michele Prettyman on Ryan Coogler's 2025 film

Fordham University professors Rufus Burnett and Michele Prettyman join Olivia Poust, assistant director of the Center on Religion and Culture, to discuss Ryan Coogler's 2025 blockbuster, Sinners. Professors Burnett and Prettyman are organizing a mini-conference on the film on April 9 and 10 entitled "On Sinners: Trans-Disciplinarity and Belonging: A Mini-Conference and Film Screening" at both of Fordham's campuses. Learn more and register.About the guests:Rufus Burnett is a member of Fordham’s theology faculty and his area of study focuses on the sonic, spatial, and embodied realities of the Christian imagination. His book Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues, exploresthese realities within the American music genre of the blues.Michele Prettyman is a professor of Communication and Media Studies whose scholarship is focused on African American cinema, visual and popular culture. Her recentpublications include “The Persistence of Wild Style: Hip Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation” in the In Focus Series on Black Liquidity issue in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She also contributed an essay to a recent anthology called, The Lemonade Reader entitled, “To Feel Like A “Natural Woman”: Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé and the Ecological Spirituality of Lemonade.Follow us on social media:Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, BlueskyLearn more about the CRC.Make a gift to the CRC to support our events and multimedia initiatives, like this podcast.