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Popular Film Stereotypes
Tania Modleski's "Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film," discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy, the jezebel, and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn't analyze the sapphire stereotype, she does use Whoppi Goldberg's past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski's comparison of Goldberg's roles and black women's stereotypes,
I could not as easily accept her theories on "Gorillas in the
Mist" and "King Kong."
Modelski says the gorillas in "Gorillas in the Mist" and "King Kong" represent issues surrounding the stereotype
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