Rick Winston
Rick has taught film history at Burlington College, Community College of Vermont, Goddard College, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
From “Birth of a Nation” to “Gone With the Wind,” harmful stereotypes of Black life were the rule in Hollywood. After World War II, there was some progress in showing a more realistic picture on the screen, due to the efforts of younger, more progressive Hollywood screenwriters – many of whom wound up on the Hollywood Blacklist.
Then in the 1950s, stars such as Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Harry Belafonte challenged that racial status quo. We’ll look at clips from films such as “In This Our Life,” “Home of the Brave,” “Odds Against Tomorrow,” and “The Defiant Ones.”
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