{"id":61669,"date":"2021-09-30T03:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61669"},"modified":"2021-09-30T03:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:19:38","slug":"gibbes-museums-film-series-to-focus-on-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61669","title":{"rendered":"Gibbes Museum\u2019s Film Series to Focus on Racial Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gibbes Museum\u2019s Film Series to Focus on Racial Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Holy City Sinner<\/a>
\nCharleston, South Carolina
\n2021-09-23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRuth Negga<\/a> and Tessa Thompson<\/a> appear in \u201cPassing<\/a>\u201d by Rebecca Hall<\/a>, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival<\/a>. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Edu Grau<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Gibbes Museum of Art<\/a> has announced the second installment of its film series, titled \u201cGibbes Films in Focus: Passing Strange<\/a>,\u201d which will feature the Lowcountry\u2019s<\/a> first screening of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival<\/a> selection, \u201cPassing<\/a>,\u201d by Rebecca Hall<\/a>, starring Tessa Thompson<\/a>, Ruth Negga<\/a>, Andre Holland<\/a>, and Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> and adapted from the groundbreaking novel<\/a> by Nella Larsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this series, the Gibbes will explore the tradition of race-passing<\/a> narratives as represented on the silver screen<\/a>. From Kate Chopin\u2019s<\/a> 1893 short story \u201cD\u00e9sir\u00e9e\u2019s Baby<\/a>,\u201d to the 1936<\/a> and 1951 adaptations<\/a> of the musical \u201cShowboat<\/a>,\u201d America<\/a> has been enthralled by passing narratives, whereby a person of Black descent, but of ambiguous or white features, slips into white society, destabilizing the strict racial codes that have governed so much of American life. This three-part series will be held at the museum this fall…<\/p>\n

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

The Gibbes Museum of Art has announced the second installment of its film series, titled \u201cGibbes Films in Focus: Passing Strange,\u201d which will feature the Lowcountry\u2019s first screening of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection, \u201cPassing,\u201d by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, and Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and adapted from the groundbreaking novel by Nella Larsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,8,6462,20],"tags":[32002,32001,9754,32000,31999,87,28879,827,1449,19672],"class_list":["post-61669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alexander-skarsgard","tag-andre-holland-2","tag-fredi-washington","tag-gibbes-museum-of-art","tag-holy-city-sinner","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ruth-negga","tag-south-carolina","tag-tessa-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669","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=61669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61670,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669\/revisions\/61670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}