{"id":60552,"date":"2021-02-10T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60552"},"modified":"2021-02-10T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:28:55","slug":"race-and-authenticity-a-film-study-on-douglas-sirks-imitation-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60552","title":{"rendered":"Race and Authenticity: A Film Study on Douglas Sirk\u2019s Imitation of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Authenticity: A Film Study on Douglas Sirk\u2019s <\/strong><\/em>Imitation of Life<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Drunk Monkeys<\/a>
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Ilari Pass<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a sin to be ashamed of what you are.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014Annie Johnson, Imitation of Life<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Literature helps the reader travel inside the skin of the character\u2014the mystery of another human being\u2014and this understanding unsettles the reader\u2019s received notion about the \u2018other,\u2019 a person who might be otherwise judged. The same can be applied to studying a film, allowing us to enhance our appreciation of subject matter that depicts a range of human experience by carefully looking at the artistic systems, such as cinematography, lighting, costume, and acting, that produce a rich and textured work of art. Douglas Sirk\u2019s<\/a> 1959 melodramatic film Imitation of Life<\/em><\/a>, which depicts the lives of four different people living in a world that is beyond their control, is a film that operates at the level of art. The first half of the film deals with a question from a feminism perspective, about what it means to be a woman living in a male-dominated society, and the second half addresses the perspective of how women of color are affected by racism. It is a story about imitating, pretending to be something that isn\u2019t true. However, what is true is what the characters literally see\u2014gender and race\u2014something no one can walk away from…<\/p>\n

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It is a story about imitating, pretending to be something that isn\u2019t true. However, what is true is what the characters literally see\u2014gender and race\u2014something no one can walk away from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,6462,20,25],"tags":[9041,31312,31313],"class_list":["post-60552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-douglas-sirk","tag-drunk-monkeys","tag-ilari-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552","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=60552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60556,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552\/revisions\/60556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}