Black Harvest Film Festival 2023: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, Black Barbie: A Documentary, We Were Meant To, Burnt Milk | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
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Another film interested in Black pop culture's seismic moments, is writer-director Lagueria Davis' " Black Barbie: A Documentary"-a ruminative interrogative of the unreachable beauty standards wrought by a singular doll.
In one fascinating sequence these speakers deconstruct the Barbie tv series, and how Black Barbie remains a sidekick. So many contemporary feminist films are solely composed around white femininity, with Black folks still relegated to the Black best friend: which only amounts to a tipping of the cap to Black e
Of course, with the release of Greta Gerwig's " Barbie," a film that attempts to confront the inequities of Barbie as a totemic figure, these questions have grown even more pertinent.
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