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- In its simplest form, whitewashing refers to the tendency of media to be dominated by white characters, played by white actors, navigating their way through a story that will likely resonate most deeply with white audiences, based on their experiences and worldviews. There are four distinct types of whitewashing.
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- Stuck. Stuck tells the true story of Chante Mallard, who hit, and accidentally killed, Gregory Glen Biggs, a homeless man, with her car.
- Extraordinary Measures. Extraordinary Measures is based on the true story of parents John and Aileen Crowley (Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell) seeking the cure for Pomple disease, from which their children suffer.
- 21. Good-Will-Hunting-meets-Rounders bro flick (apparently the writers were really into Matt Damon?) 21 tells to true story of MIT students who used their math acumen to count cards and hustle casinos.
- The Conqueror. On the one hand, you'd have to be out of your mind to think of John Wayne when casting a film about Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan.
In its simplest form, whitewashing refers to the tendency of media to be dominated by white characters, played by white actors, navigating their way through a story that will likely resonate most deeply with white audiences, based on their experiences and worldviews.
Sep 5, 2017 · Whitewashing happens in a number of ways. It can be the whitening through casting of a character who was originally a person of colour in historical or source material, as with Daimio in the new...
Jun 6, 2015 · Hollywood has been accused of whitewashing Asians for decades. In the early days of big budget film, directors put eye and cheek prosthetics on actors to approximate Asian facial features.
- “The White Savior”
- Whitewashing
- White Gaze Blindness
A 2016 Oscar nominee for Best Picture,Hidden Figures(written by Allision Schroeder and directed by Theodore Melfi) is a classic example of a white savior movie. This film is about three Black women who were exceptional mathematicians at NASA during the space race. In the film, Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) saves the leading lady, Katherine Goble John...
Another harmful subset of the white gaze is a blurred perspective, also known as “whitewashing.” Continuing with the theme of Hollywood depictions of BIPOC mathematical geniuses, let’s turn to the 2008 movie 21(written by Peter Steinfeld and directed by Robert Luketic). The film was about six MIT students who became blackjack experts and won millio...
Last but not least, the third view of the white gaze that has a habit of ruining a BIPOC story is essentially “white gaze blindness.” This myopia occurs when a BIPOC narrative is refocused to center around the non-person-of-color character(s) while reducing the BIPOC character to a plot point. A perfect example of this is the 1989 film True Believe...
May 24, 2024 · It creates a White world where sins against people of color, including Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, Latinos, and other minority groups cease to matter because, in revisionist...
Apr 14, 2016 · Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman and 17 other outrageous and controversial movie castings
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