Hopefully, Academy Award winners will be chosen because voters believed in the actors’ performances − not because of some meta narrative about their off-screen behavior.
Sacheen Littlefeather speaks at the 45th Academy Awards.
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A new report disputes the heritage claims of Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather. A scholar explains why scrutiny over alleged ethnic fraud is essential.
‘The Salt of the Earth,’ made during the height of the post-World War II Red Scare, was blacklisted.
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Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film ‘the air of a snuff piece’. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
Watkins on the set of his last film, La Commune (1871)
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