“Nice White Ladies Don’t Go Around Barefoot”: Racing the white subjects of The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)

Not only is The Help (2009; 2011) a text within which a white woman author (Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone) profits from the lives of women of colour, but it is also a text originally written by a white woman author (Kathryn Stockett) who profits from the real and/or imagined lives o...

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Main Author: Marie-Alix Thouaille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2015-12-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue10/HTML/ArticleThouaille.html