{"id":62365,"date":"2021-11-23T20:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62365"},"modified":"2021-11-23T20:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:27:50","slug":"the-experiment-podcast-how-netflixs-passing-upends-a-hollywood-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62365","title":{"rendered":"The Experiment Podcast: How Netflix\u2019s Passing Upends a Hollywood Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/podcasts\/archive\/2021\/11\/rebecca-hall-racial-identity-passing-film-netflix\/620745\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The <\/strong><\/em><strong>Experiment <\/strong><em><strong>Podcast: How Netflix\u2019s Passing Upends a Hollywood Genre<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a><br \/>2021-11-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/podcasts\/archive\/2021\/11\/rebecca-hall-racial-identity-passing-film-netflix\/620745\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98%; border: 0px; font-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/SezFk07r4gkJJckKTMK6DrZ0r_8=\/0x0:2000x1125\/1952x1098\/media\/img\/mt\/2021\/11\/TheExperiment_EpisodeImage_16x9_35-1\/original.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American movie industry<\/a> has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Hall<\/a> is trying to tell a new kind of story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/wnycstudios\/#file=\/audio\/json\/1152974\/&amp;share=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> has a long history of \u201cpassing movies\u201d\u2014films in which Black characters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass for white<\/a>\u2014usually starring white actors. Even as these films have attempted to depict the devastating effect of racism in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>, they have trafficked in tired tropes about Blackness. But a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new movie<\/a> from the actor-writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Hall<\/a> takes the problematic conventions of this uniquely American genre and turns them on their head. Hall tells the story of how her movie came to life, and how making the film helped her grapple with her own family\u2019s secrets around race and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast (00:31:41) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/podcasts\/archive\/2021\/11\/rebecca-hall-racial-identity-passing-film-netflix\/620745\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American movie industry has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall is trying to tell a new kind of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,395,1245,8413,8,6462,20],"tags":[28879,6001],"class_list":["post-62365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-biography","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365","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=62365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62367,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions\/62367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}