(2021) - Bad Hair

The protagonist, Anna, gets a weave to "fit in" at a music television station. The film suggests that survival in a capitalist system often requires Black women to mutilate or alter their natural selves to appease a white-dominated hierarchy .

The Price of Professionalism: Satirizing Eurocentric Beauty Standards in Simien’s "Bad Hair" Bad Hair (2021)

Killer Weaves and Corporate Ladders: A Socio-Political Analysis of 1980s Black Horror The protagonist, Anna, gets a weave to "fit

Introduce the film, the 1980s setting, and your thesis regarding beauty standards and capitalism. the 1980s setting

Analyze the use of grainy, 16mm-style cinematography to mimic 80s horror.

Argue whether the "villain" is the hair itself or the systemic racism that made the hair necessary.