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From: Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:39:52 -0500
Christine, I wouldn't consider movies like 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, and Fruitvale Station as necessarily directed to African-American audiences. I reviewed Fruitvale Station on my blog, a piece picked up for a teacher's guide on that film, and I believe its strength is in what it reveals to white audiences whose only other exposure to this tragedy was media accounts that dehumanized Oscar Grant. The film is more of a window for outsiders than a mirror for young African Americans, so I certainly understand why young people are tired of it being the only image they get. But I also think we're better off because that film was made and might open the eyes of someone who isn't young and black.
http://www.lynmillerlachmann.com/developing-characters-the-lesson-of-fruitvale-station/
Until we have total racial justice and human rights, films like this will be necessary--though pure fun and entertainment are important too.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press. 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:39:52 -0500
Christine, I wouldn't consider movies like 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, and Fruitvale Station as necessarily directed to African-American audiences. I reviewed Fruitvale Station on my blog, a piece picked up for a teacher's guide on that film, and I believe its strength is in what it reveals to white audiences whose only other exposure to this tragedy was media accounts that dehumanized Oscar Grant. The film is more of a window for outsiders than a mirror for young African Americans, so I certainly understand why young people are tired of it being the only image they get. But I also think we're better off because that film was made and might open the eyes of someone who isn't young and black.
http://www.lynmillerlachmann.com/developing-characters-the-lesson-of-fruitvale-station/
Until we have total racial justice and human rights, films like this will be necessary--though pure fun and entertainment are important too.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press. 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
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