Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Imitation of Life
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“Social problem” films were all the rage after World War II. So how could movies about racism be so conservative?
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Fredi Washington and Her Defining Role in Imitation of Life Blog Amistad Research Center 2018-07-02 The Fredi Washington papers at the Amistad Research Center highlights the life of the African American actress, dancer, and activist known for her stage and screen rolls from the 1920-1940s. She was born Fredericka Carolyn Washington in Savannah, Georgia on…
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Though Nella Larsen’s classic 1929 novel is understood to be a tragedy, it also exposes race to be something of a farce.
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In this paper, I will address how this story manages to transcend a generation and how the narrative was changed to accommodate a postwar audience. I will also discuss how the movie industry affected the production and marketing of “Imitation of Life” at the cusp of the tumultuous 1960s.
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Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century exhibition, HOME, reviewed by Şima İmşir Parker The Manchester Review Manchester, England May 2016 Şima İmşir Parker, Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Manchester Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, Home, 30 April 2016 – 3 July 2016 “The melodramatic body is…
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Two Takes on ‘Imitation of Life’: Exploitation in Eastmancolor The New York Times 2015-05-14 J. Hoberman “I would have made the picture just for the title,” Douglas Sirk said of his last Hollywood production, “Imitation of Life” (1959). But, newly released on Blu-ray by Universal, along with its original version, directed in 1934 by John…
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Mammy versus mulatta: A rhetorical analysis of the act of passing and the influence of controlling images in Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life” Arizona State University May 2010 189 pages Publication Number: AAT 3407107 ISBN: 9781109743265 Allison Parker A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Fannie Hurst’s…
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Picturizing Race: Hollywood’s Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through “Imitation of Life” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 27 (1998) Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina “A Case Very Near the Borderline” Hollywood’s Production Code explicitly banned “miscegenation” from…
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…