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| Display Name: | jelliswgst |
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| Member Since: | 11/29/11 |
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@rsr thanks for your suggestions. I will definitely check them out! @yrnamehere, I don't really see that not wanting my African American daughter to see Fred Astaire in blackface is over analysis. Blackface is demeaning and dehumanizing. I get that it is also culturally complex but it is also fundamentally racist and therefore Swing Time, in my opinion, is not a movie for kids, like Taxi Driver is not a movie for kids. Images are not meaningless, even for three-year-olds, and we are not talking about a subtle image here. My Favorite Films for Children Maxwell's Finds |
9/6/12 9:12 AM |
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@makinyc. I totally agree, classic is not always better. @L-A I didn't know what Little Rascals was (I'm from England) but just looked it up. I'm shocked that would be a suggestion?! My Favorite Films for Children Maxwell's Finds |
9/5/12 9:00 PM |
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Yeah this is why screening the classics for my daughter makes me a little nervous. You never know when there's going to be a "Swing Time" moment. Maybe when's she's old enough to discuss these issues (she's 3). For now, maybe Pixar is a safer bet. Wall E is pretty classic. My Favorite Films for Children Maxwell's Finds |
9/5/12 6:19 PM |
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Love many of the classics listed above but I also try to find movies that have some diversity in terms of race and gender. (I won't show her Dumbo for instance which has horrible racial caricatures). Does anyone have suggestions for classic movies that include people of color? My Favorite Films for Children Maxwell's Finds |
9/5/12 4:25 PM |
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This is a beautiful, stylish home. Don't want to be downer, but the Farm Security Administration photographs are LOC documents of rural poverty for the most part in the Depression but also WW2. Maybe a little voyeuristic to have them displayed as art in such a palatial house? Printed on German etching paper no less!? Carolyn's Bohemian Glam House Tour |
1/24/12 11:10 AM |
