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Hollywood Racism: The Magical Negro Trope
By Zuleyka Zevallos Adam Serwer reports in Mother Jones that George Lucas’ latest film, Red Tails had trouble getting made, partly because the “studios weren’t willing to finance a film without a White...
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Noble Savages and Magical Pixie Conquests: Colonial Fantasies in Film
Via Wiki: Detail from Benjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe (1771). This painting is an example of an idealised vision of the “noble savage” in North American art. By Zuleyka Zevallos I wanted to...
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Not “Playing Ball” With Hollywood Racism
This article was first published on Medium on 2 March 2015. Director Lee Daniels thinks that acknowledging race would invite racism and exclusion. He is very mistaken. The idea that racism only...
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Gender, Race, Power and The Beguiled
How do White women perpetuate gender and racial inequality in film? A new adaption of the 1966 novel and 1971 film, “The Beguiled,” is hitting the silver screen. The original story opens with a...
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Adam Serwer reports in Mother Jones that George Lucas’ latest film, Red Tails, had trouble getting made, partly because the “studios weren’t willing to finance a film without a White protagonist as an...
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Feminist Frequency applies the Bechdel Test to this year’s Oscar nominated films. In order to pass the Bechdel Test, a film must meet two simple dimensions: The film must to have at least two women...
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The stain of racism and sexism, is not just for people of color or women, it’s all of our burden, all of us. and we absolutely, I don’t care how ordinary you may feel, we, all of us can inspire change,...
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Lee Daniels, director of Precious, attributes his commercial success to not focusing on his racial identity. Not “playing the race card” as he puts it would invite racism and exclusion. He also...
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