Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman’s breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Jodi Gomes
Actors: Alan Light, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Cathy Hughes, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Marc Lamont Hill, Michael Musto, Paul Tagliabue, T.J. Jackson, Tito Jackson
Country: N/A
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