New Racialicious article

Oct 07, 2009 09:35

I was flagged down by the Rathbone-as-Sokka pic, but it looks like an interesting discussion on the role of an actor (haven't read the entire thing yet; will do when I have more free time ( Read more... )

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mrcab October 8 2009, 02:53:14 UTC
Too bad it ends right as it's ramping-up. I'll look forward to the rest of it.

I'm curious though; they talk about the general audience's reactions to the attempts at verisimilitude, but what it seems like what we are dealing with here is more about the (general)audience not understanding or not caring or not knowing. It's almost like having a move where the characters are driving around in a cardboard-box and pretending it's a car, and no one in the audience even notices it's a cardboard-box.

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dkwrkm October 8 2009, 05:57:16 UTC
Well, I wager the not-understanding/not-knowing thing comes from the default-I-see-white-people thing... and the not-caring thing is the I-insist-that-I-am-color-blind-thing-when-really-I'm-just-uncomfortable-with-thinking-about-race-racism-and-the-history-that-goes-along-with-it.

Whoo, that was long-winded. :)

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