Film
Pinky
Wed, Jul 11, 2018
- 9:15PM
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RUN TIME: 109min
FORMAT: DCP
GENERAL ADMISSION: $15
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Directed by Elia Kazan | 1949
With Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters, Ethel Barrymore
One of Hollywood’s earliest attempts to grapple with racism in America is a fascinating, controversial melodrama in which a light-skinned black woman (Crain) passing as white faces a crisis when she falls in love with a white doctor. In casting a white actress in the lead, Pinky presents a troubling paradox: how do you make a film purportedly about the evils of racism that nevertheless centers whiteness?
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