‘For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie’: Foregrounding and Marginalizing African American Women in the Film Hidden Figures (2016)
This paper critically examines the representation of gender and race in the biographical drama film Hidden Figures (2016), directed by Theodore Melfi. The film is based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction book of the same title, which spotlights previously hidden figures in US history: the black fe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Groningen Press
2021-09-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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| Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/37914 |