| A paradox | |
| Posted by: NeoAdamite 03:57 am EDT 05/04/24 | |
| In reply to: The Outsiders and Tulsa. - portenopete 08:21 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
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| Most stories, especially those more than 50 years old, take place in a de facto segregated world. Modern audiences don't want to see that, for reasons both good and bad, and so a new convention has been adopted: If the story doesn't have race on its mind, neither will we. The convention seems to be working pretty well, but it does sometimes causes cognitive dissonance where it pushes too hard against our personal knowledge. That's what you experienced. Historically all the characters in The Outsiders would be white, but having an all-white cast would be off-putting; so the production compromised by making the working-class characters integrated. As a counterexample: The producers of Bright Star clearly felt that using an integrated cast in a show dealing with the social norms of 1920s North Carolina risked making the story unintelligible; they might have been right, but it still felt very strange to be looking at a large all-white cast. |
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