Last night I watched White Christmas for the very first time. I'm not sure how avoided its indoctrination as a yuletide classic, but the technical skill and creativity of its creators and practitioners, is a worthy spectacle. The film is wrought with cultural cues that provide a telling commentary on race, gender, and sexuality the during the post war era of baby boomers and the introduction of the United states as a economic and cultural world power.
Save for the disembodied hand during "Snow", blackness is conspicuously absent, and strangely mimicked, during the Minstrel Number. In the midst of giving myself permission to enjoy this slice of Americana, I am also composing a critical response...
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