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- Title
The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood film.
- Authors
Evans, Nicola
- Abstract
The article examines the representation of interracial families in films. A critical analyses of films present the possibilities of interraciality when color is introduced in the family. The author considers "Made in America," starring Whoopi Goldberg and "A Family Thing," starring Robert Duvall as classical Hollywood stories where the family unit is restored after racial sin and gender issues are resolved. The films "Six Degrees of Separation," starring Will Smith and "Smoke," starring William Hurt, are said to portray yearnings for an alternative to the nuclear family, and of what could be possible when people cross the boundary of race discrimination.
- Subjects
ETHNIC groups in motion pictures; MOTION pictures &; society; MADE in America (Film); FAMILY Thing, A (Film); SIX Degrees of Separation (Film); SMOKE (Film); NONTRADITIONAL families; NUCLEAR families
- Publication
Screen, 2002, Vol 43, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/screen/43.3.271