While the characters are doing battle with parents over old core cultural values that have gone by the wayside -- and yet the characters have a burning desire to be left to their own devices, e.g., marriage and a long life together -- Levine writes that "Drayton's revised narrative" shows that "the film does not really want to be about any kind of racial conflict, but instead, about the irrelevance of racial differences" (Levine, 2001, 374). It is "essential," Levine continues on page 375, to the "integrationist premise" of the film that "whiteness itself not be rendered explicitly desirable." In fact Levine points out on page 375 that the black assistant to Tillie, Dorothy, has "short hair, short skirt, and long legs," which Levine insists is far more typical of a female in the 1960s than Joanna, who dresses more like a woman in the 1950s. This is Levine's way of critiquing this movie is to apply judgments on the director's choice of language, on what the characters say in terms of what was the politically correct thing to do in the 1960s, and exact harsh judgments on Hollywood. In fact the last words Spencer Tracy utters in the film are said by Levine to represent his last words as a superstar actor. I'm not sure how that adds to an understanding of the film's principal theme -- interracial relationships and marriage -- but Levine is spot on when she says that "…the film preserves the primacy of the white male subject position… [and that] only black men are real political threats" (376). Levine appears obsessed with white women and how they allegedly help drive a wedge between white men and black men. Moreover, Levine suggests that when Tracey refutes...
Prentice's accusations that he is "too old to remember love or sex," the audience relates more to Tracy and Hepburn as a real-life couple than to the movie's characters themselves. This is a serious stretch, but Levine is all over the map in any event when it comes to sexuality, white women, and this in some cases, she over dramatizes and creates esoteric, confusing references to the film's meaning.
Turner's Sitting In and Nikki Giovanni's The Collected Poems, as well as the movie, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, demonstrate the way the black civil rights movement changed during the 1960s? What significant changes do they show? What was causing those changes? Turner's remarkable book, Sitting In, demonstrates that range of ways in which the black civil rights movement experienced and manifested change during the 1960s. One of the tremendous
Miami was where it all happened. I dated then. I guess you could say I had a life. Back then, if I were to be living under any rock, it had to be a very beautiful one, such as limestone, the kind of limestone that grew in small crevices on the road leading up to my grandfather's home on the island. I felt then that Prince Charming would come, eventually
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Were they even higher than the film portrays, or where they Hollywood dramatizing in order to create a film sympathetic to black soldiers in an era of "politically correct" filmmaking? The viewer takes the film for truth, when it may be more fabrication than they know. In conclusion, "Glory" is an interesting film for a number of reasons. It graphically shows the horrors of war, and the additional racial horrors
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