{"id":45888,"date":"2016-03-03T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45888"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:09:11","slug":"pinky-and-the-origins-of-interracial-oscar-bait%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45888","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pinky\u2019 and the Origins of Interracial Oscar-Bait\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Pinky\u2019 and the Origins of Interracial Oscar-Bait<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Bitch Flicks<\/a>
\n2016-02-26<\/p>\n

Hannah Graves<\/strong><\/a>
\nDepartment of History
\nUniversity of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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This guest post by Hannah Graves<\/a> appears as part of our theme week on Interracial Relationships<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twentieth Century-Fox\u2019s Pinky<\/a><\/em> is far from the first Hollywood<\/a> feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes<\/a> that forbid depicting \u201cmiscegenation<\/a>,\u201d Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms<\/a><\/em> to Duel in the Sun<\/em><\/a>, Showboat<\/a><\/em> to Imitation of Life<\/em><\/a>. Yet, Pinky<\/em> was quite distinct in tone from the films that came before it.<\/p>\n

Produced by Fox\u2019s studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck<\/a>, Pinky<\/em> was part of a spate of post-war social problem films that earnestly sought to address topical issues. Studios promoted these films as evidence that their medium was maturing, littering their advertising with exaggerated claims about the power of their pictures. As one of Pinky\u2019s<\/em> screenwriters, Phil Dunne, wrote in a New York Times article, \u201cWhat we say and do on the screen in productions of this sort can affect the happiness, the living conditions, even the physical safety of millions of our fellow citizens.\u201d Pinky<\/em> is best understood at the starting point for a new Hollywood trajectory for interracial relationships onscreen: the worthy Oscar<\/a>-bait drama that claims to enlighten as it entertains and serves as a conduit for fostering tolerance in the presumed white audience. It is a tradition that informs films from A Patch of Blue<\/a><\/em> and Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/em><\/a> to Monster\u2019s Ball<\/a><\/em> and the forthcoming Loving<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twentieth Century-Fox\u2019s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting \u201cmiscegenation,\u201d 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 of Life. Yet, Pinky was quite distinct in tone from the films that came before it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[23130,12959,23131,31],"class_list":["post-45888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-bitch-flicks","tag-darryl-f-zanuck","tag-hannah-graves","tag-pinky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53492,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions\/53492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}