{"id":6103,"date":"2013-03-31T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2016-09-07T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:40:43","slug":"the-body-beautiful-a-film-by-ngozi-onwurah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6103","title":{"rendered":"The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/pages\/c101.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Women Make Movies<\/a><br \/>\nEngland, 1991<br \/>\n23 minutes<br \/>\nColor, VHS\/16mm\/DVD<br \/>\nOrder No. W99229<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/pages\/c101.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/imageDownload\/BODY%20BEAUTIFUL%2001.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah\u2019s brave excursion into her mother\u2019s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah Women Make Movies England, 1991 23 minutes Color, VHS\/16mm\/DVD Order No. W99229 Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,125,8,10,842,25],"tags":[2525,2519,2526],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","category-women","tag-madge-onwurah","tag-ngozi-onwurah","tag-women-make-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","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=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48998,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/48998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}