{"id":59173,"date":"2019-11-03T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59173"},"modified":"2019-11-03T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T02:45:13","slug":"illusions-a-film-by-julie-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59173","title":{"rendered":"Illusions: A Film by Julie Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illusions: A Film by Julie Dash<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Women Make Movies<\/a>
\n1983
\n34 minutes
\nBW
\n16mm\/DVD
\nOrder No. 99306<\/p>\n

Julie Dash<\/strong><\/a>, Director\/Writer<\/p>\n

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This critically acclaimed drama from filmmaker Julie Dash (<\/em>Daughers of the Dust<\/a>) takes place in 1942 at a fictitious Hollywood<\/a> motion picture studio.<\/em><\/p>\n

The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor<\/a>; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood<\/a> motion picture studio. Mignon Dupr\u00e9e, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo. This highly-acclaimed drama by one of the leading African American women directors follows Mignon’s dilemma, Ester’s struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: three illusions in conflict with reality.<\/p>\n