Watch all my videos ad-free and get exclusive content on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/thomasflight (Signing up using my link supports my channel) The world of Donald Glover's Atlanta feels... off. What's going on? Citations: Baraka, Amiri. “Henry Dumas: Afro-Surreal Expressionist” Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 22, No. 2, Henry Dumas Issue (Summer, 1988) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904491 Miller, D. Scot. “Call It Afro-Surreal.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19 May 2009, https://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2009/05/19/call-it-afro-surreal/ Mulkerrins, Jane. "Donald Glover on the Return of Atlanta: ‘I’m Not Making a TV show, I Am Making an Experience’." The Guardian, Jun 23, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/23/donald-glover-atlanta-robbin-season Bakare, Lanre. "From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: The New Age of Afro-Surrealism." The Guardian, Dec 06, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/06/afro-surrealism-black-artists-racist-society Special thanks to D. Scot Miller for the interview. // WATCH MORE THOMAS FLIGHT -Ad-Free Videos and Exclusive Content on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/thomasflight -My Podcast Cinema of Meaning: Ad-Free and early on Nebula: Nebula: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-of-meaning/id1611352831 -Rent or Buy My Experimental Documentary: https://labyrinthion.com/ -Read My Newsletter: https://thomasflight.substack.com/ // SUPPORT MY WORK -Support my Channel directly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thomasflight Patrons get access to a discord community, monthly podcast reviews of everything I watch, and more! -Sign up for Nebula using my Link: https://go.nebula.tv/thomasflight Signing Up for Nebula using my link supports my channel financially. // FOLLOW ME -Twitter: https://twitter.com/thomasflight -Website: http://www.thomasflight.com/ -Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/thomasflight/ -TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thomas.flight // CONTACT ME -sponsorship and Business inquiries: thomasflight@standard.tv -Questions, feedback, other stuff: contact@thomasflight.com (check out my FAQ as well: https://www.thomasflight.com/faq) #ThomasFlight #VideoEssay Select Images supplied by Getty Images