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viewingblackgirlhood.com viewingblackgirlhood.com
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with long flowing hair covers most of the in-store poster
How far marketing will go, people were arguing about the red hair and yet, the girl from the marketing has long flowing hair rather than curly red hair.
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o she is not a newcomer to thescreen
How black women have to work ten times harder and still do not get the recognition they deserve.
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Destiny wraps her thin, brown arms around the lost and brokenwhite woman in a last act of (magical) healing.
Used to "heal" the white persons problems or issues, forced to forgive
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The film never mentions the child’s father and thus,the typical “black dysfunctional family” with the “absent father” providesAFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA
the automatic assumption that if the father is not mentioned then he left rather than anything else
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“Igot to worry about you all the damn time! You’re killing me! You’re kill-ing me!” These are unfortunately prophetic words, and they conditionHushpuppy to later feel responsible for her father’s death
also a call to when she leaves her father to die in the woods early in the movie, as she doesnt understand he is ill but rather thinks she is responsible for his stroke
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The Aurochfantasy allows her a semblance of agency in a world where she continu-ally faces threats and abuse
Its her coping method: escapism. This is common especially for children. However during the movie it is once again hard to recall that Hushpuppy is a child as she is shown to be independent.
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Scott describes the images of extreme poverty as “bayousteampunk”
Odd to put an "aesthetic" name to someones living conditions
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busedand neglected black girl named Hushpuppy.
Having seen the film, I struggle to accept that this was the case. While this is true, the film somehow was able to make the audience suspend their sympathy and anger about the abuse throughout the story. This is because of the arcs the father and daughter take together, but at the end of the day Hushpuppy was abused, even if the film paints over it
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rkel was the reconfigurationof the pickaninny caricature:
Sterotypes can evolve, they do not have to be identical to the original to be portrayed.
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The film disavows innocence for Precious. Infact, all the black children in the film are portrayed as knowing and adult
Adultification.
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The film was praised by some reviewers as a “must see,” a rare cin-ematic experience that “exhibit[s] the courage and perseverance that givesus all hope.
I dont know if it's just me, but the idea of having a movie that profits off a story about the abuse of a black girl feels... wrong? Critics are talking about it like some show, and while it is a film, it is one that should provoke thought and dicussion rather than hype. I dont know if that makes sense
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
also has to do with a young black girl taking care of herself, almost seen as older than she is
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The sexualized images of black girls often lack an element ofromance—they are fully object, desired for momentary physical satisfac-tion and hence are portrayed as raw, pure sexual energy. White girls, incontrast, are sexualized as inherently innocent (the “little girl” appeal),exploring their sexuality (as opposed to owning it) and needing the “help”of the white male to achieve knowledge of her sexuality
There was a youtube video essay I saw recently about the exploitation of children in predetory media. It discusses movies like lolita and precious. This part of the essay reminds me of the main argument the video was making.
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society thatregarded black skin as ugly, tainted.
colorism, still seen in the film industry today
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that black women weresomehow not feminine, not “real” women, particularly when contrastedwith the “virtuous” white woman image
The idea of comparing women and what it means to be a "real woman" How is this defined? and by who? this question still comes up today in topics about racism and transphobia
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