CIN374Y1 Lecture 17: CIN374 LECTURE 17
19 Mar 2019
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Gone with the wind selznick: black people need to come out on the right side of the ledger. Since its release, it has been plagues with depictions of african americans. There was a gap between what selznick wanted and what happened, signifying the racial disparity at the time as well as the studios" own treatment of this demographic. This largely avoided dealing outwardly with issues of racism. There were black stories being told on screen but they weren"t dealing with actual issues of racism. Pca didn"t want to deal with this for fear of upsetting the balance of maintaining audience interest. No movement was being made to better represent black actors or to make their representations less stereotypical. Pinky located racism to a solve-able problem but that didn"t really do much (black girl who looks like a white movie star) In intruder in the dust, the black figures are broadly painted figures.
