Sentences with phrase «white audiences»

This supports the conclusion that racially - marked shows are marked as such for the benefit of white audiences and institutional power players.
In the early 1990s, dating lines catered to a mainly white audience.
One of the most interesting things she brought up was the response of white audiences to her character.
Only one woman sat amongst the top table of 11 yesterday evening as discussions on rebranding the Tory Party took place in front of an almost exclusively white audience in a Westminster meeting room.
After a brief account of the resistance he's encountered trying to sell his message about racism at Promise Keepers events (angry letters, eerily silent responses from largely white audiences), McCartney's talk suddenly becomes a breathless, nearly incomprehensible rant that prompts the guy next to me to observe that he's «never seen anyone so filled with the spirit as Coach Mac.»
Pollack shoots this scene with a real starkness, keeping it confrontational towards the film's white audience while shying away from deifying Lee.
«I told Beyonce that I was afraid the predominately white audience at Coachella would be confused by all of the black culture and black college culture because it was something that they might not get.»
Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.
New research suggests white audiences tend to stay away from movies featuring minorities due to the assumption that they are not the films» intended audience.
Controversy also broiled last month when it was revealed that Get Out would compete at the Golden Globes in the Comedy / Musical category, with many seeing this as an ironic meta - commentary on the way white audiences receive narratives told by black people about racism.
There are scenes so brutal «Mudbound» that actor Jason Mitchell found himself assuring white audiences that yes, the movie is in fact an accurate portrayal of the violence black people experience.
Funk Lessons, 1982 - 84, comprised a sequence of lectures teaching predominantly white audiences about the history of the musical genre, followed by dance instruction.
Perhaps the most talked - about work of the year was Kara Walker's giant sugar sphinx mammy, A Subtlety, which was widely praised, but also led to questions about the representation of stereotypes and the spectacle of black and brown bodies for a primarily white audience.
... In other words, African art is much more than this and MoMA is grossly irresponsible for not making that abundantly clear, especially to a largely ignorant white audience.
While Robert Doty's work as the (white) curator for that exhibit has since been praised, neither black nor white audiences readily accepted it at the time.
BaadAsssss Cinema is an apt examination of blaxploitation film, the 1970s explosion of on - screen black protagonists that thrilled black and white audiences alike with a potent combination of action, sex, and the funky styles of the day.
«No group in America,» Trump mused during a speech before a nearly all - white audience in Dimondale, Mich., «has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African Americans.»
Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.
As I read commentaries about the performance, I realized many of the references I loved weren't immediately familiar to everyone, particularly the largely white audience that attends Coachella every year.
For it to simply be subject to American consumerism and cater to a white audience, is parallel to colonial ideology.
To the slave, Douglass told his white audience, «your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all...
Your words about blended churches may be helpful for a white audience.
King thought his theology was derived primarily from his graduate education, and to a large degree, it was, especially his ghostwritten books and speeches to white audiences.
«We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes — that's all they care about,» Trump told a white audience 25 miles outside of the city of Milwaukee.
In the mid-1990s, dating lines were generally focused on a white audience.
Some of it is subtle, some of it definitely is not, but through it all you sense the filmmakers rightfully felt no obligation to cater to a white audience.
There will be spoilsports on both sides — one anticipates the nasty racists, but there may also be intellectuals in a huff: «The white audience certainly gets off watching all this black - on - black violence!»
Marvel Studio better bring on Black Panther to the big screen cause if they do nt i believe they are scared that the white audience will not watch black panther thats why they not making a live action movie
This is not a slavery film told through the eyes of a white audience surrogate, this is Solomon Northup's story through and through, and Ejiofor brings the character to life in devastatingly powerful fashion.
Entertainment has a long history of presenting stereotypical images of black people that seemed to be pleasing to some white audiences while minimizing black lives.
More often than not, the jokes stick the landing: an impossibly long elevator code; a flattery - off between characters; an un-woke rap for an all - white audience.
Well, they are clearly not made for the white audience, as those are.
White Christmas: This commercial for White Christmas, «the first black holiday movie for a white audience,» featured white SNL cast members (i.e., most of them) re-enacting scenes from the Best Man Holiday, Black Nativity and Madea's Christmas trailers.
But Attenborough, plainly afraid that the white audience will not accept a black lead, transfers the hero «s role to Woods.
«To describe «Black Panther» as a black superhero film doesn't do enough to praise how utterly disinterested it is in appealing to a white audience.
It's a film that can be enjoyed by both black and white audiences.
In a speech to an all - white audience in Houston Shaker claimed that white teachers were having their lives threatened if they didn't leave their jobs.
I realized that even though I hate racism, and despite all I have studied about its history, even while I was answering the questions, I was for the most part, unconsciously writing as a white person, and unconsciously assuming a white audience.
Mourning Dove sanitized the stories to sell to a white audience; in the back, she is quoted about how she would never be able to sell stories of Skunk as the tribe really told them.
If you take a black person trying to open up what's inside of him, which is a free person trying to express himself, then you would come out, as I saw many times, into the consciousness of the white audience in order for them to be titillated.
I have myself asked whether Jean - Michel Basquiat meant it when he played the outlaw for a largely white audience, but in a recent show pairing him with Jean Dubuffet, the Frenchman's primitivism looks phony by comparison.
The spots flipped from one side of an elevated monitor to the other almost arbitrarily, and the audience — an often - white audience — had to move accordingly, circling the room.
Citing Adrian Piper's controversial withdrawal from Radical Presence, Vikram questions whether the format of the «ethnicity exhibition'truly serves those whose work is being shown, whether it limits the artist to their biographies, or if «racially marked shows are marked as such for the benefit of white audiences and institutional power players.»
Horne was chosen for her talent, allure, and, problematically, for her light skin, which was seen as acceptable to white audiences.
[3] Goldsmith may genuinely have believed that by reading his poem he was doing the latter: forcing a white audience in a white institutional context to acknowledge the horror of police brutality committed daily against Black men.
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