Imitation of Life Reviews

Torey 2022-06-21 20:41:46

Introduction: Laura Mulvey is a famous British film theorist, especially famous as a feminist film critic. Her paper "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Film" published in 1975 systematically analyzed the use of classic Hollywood films as a This paper is still the key material for domestic colleges and...

Durward 2022-06-21 17:09:30

What's wrong with not wanting to be black? Don't you have to be black to be called right? If it could change in reality, I guess I would become white. . . . At least in the US. . . . This is the same reason that poor children think their families are poor. In reality, which poor children do not...

Carli 2022-06-21 15:44:53

A family melodrama that emphasizes personal emotions, moral and ethical standards. One of the classic Hollywood genres produced for female audiences. During the transition period of American society in the 1950s, in the post-Paramount Act era, the producers began to consciously present the...

Martina 2022-06-21 14:24:56

Double bill time! Two film versions of Fannie Hurst's contentious weepie IMITATION OF LIFE, poignantly touches the raw nerve of the star-spangled, inveterate racial discrimination through a brace of mother-daughter dyads, one white, one black, but the latter is stigmatized with a more taxing...

Deangelo 2022-06-21 13:05:00

Classic Hollywood Melodrama. Landmark film regarding race relations. A hollow success about career over marriage. A sad story about a girl passing for white.

Sarah Jane is both a victim and a "hero". Unlike her mother who silently accepted her destiny and social status, Sarah Jane seized any...