Tag: Pinky

  • October 29, 1949 Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 2016-10-29 Matthew F. Delmont, Professor of History Arizona State University On October 29, 1949, the Chicago Defender published Walter White’s review of Elia Kazan’s film Pinky. The film, a drama about racial passing starring Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters, was the top-grossing film of 1949.…

  • Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film University of Minnesota Press 2007 200 pages 24 b&w photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3412-5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3411-8 Cindy Patton, Canada Research Chair in Community Culture and Health Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Though largely forgotten today, the 1949 film Pinky had a significant…

  • Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura – 43 Volume 15, Number 1 (May 2000) pages 95-121 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-95 Elspeth Kydd, Senior Lecturer of Film Studies and Video Production University of the West of England, Bristol Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge ……

  • Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 40 (2004) Miriam J. Petty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Rutgers University, Newark Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura 43 (Volume 15, Number 1), 2000 pp. 94-121 Elspeth Kydd Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge . . . that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain . . . Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon, or Life in…

  • 5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity In cooperation with The Graduate Association of Rhetoric and Performance Studies. A Graduate Thesis Performance Exploring Biracial Identity in the 19th Century. Monroe Lecture Center Theater California Avenue, South Campus Hofstra University 2009-03-19 19:30 (Local Time) by Melissa J. Edwards Hofstra University This performance explores the influences of…