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- The film explores themes of racial tension and social injustice. “Devil in a Blue Dress” delves into the racial inequality prevalent in post-World War II America, providing a thought-provoking commentary on the era.
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Jul 20, 2022 · Devil in a Blue Dress explicitly confronts the racialized implications of classic noir’s dichotomy between polite society and dark, shadowy underworlds. Its social critique is brutally honest and sharply targeted; race is both the organizing principle of its power structure and its central mystery.
Dec 21, 2023 · The film explores themes of racial tension and social injustice. “Devil in a Blue Dress” delves into the racial inequality prevalent in post-World War II America, providing a thought-provoking commentary on the era. The movie received positive reviews from critics.
Sep 28, 2021 · This essay discusses the theme of racism in the book 'Devil in a Blue dress' by Walter Mosley and descends a dark path of deceit and discrimination.
Dec 17, 2020 · Very long indeed. The publication date of Devil in a Blue Dress was in June 1990. America was still (and is still) struggling with its own history, its own unconscious awareness of race and who’s winning that contest. Race in the United States of America is, to say the least, the long haul.
- Film Noir Revisionism
- Examining Race
- Conclusion
In its heyday in the ’40s and ’50s, noir was one of the film’s sharpest genres, revealing society’s ugly underbelly at the heart of the American Dream. These films were born out of the changing gender, racial, and economic landscape of America during and after WWII. Their cynical detectives often found that they weren’t cynical enough as they uncov...
Race and identity are at the core of everything that happens to Rawlins. When he loses his job at the aircraft factory, it’s based on prejudice – the white employees keep their jobs, and Rawlins is called “fella” by his boss instead of his real name. Albright hires Rawlins for his ability to access the juke joints that Monet frequents without drawi...
As an adaption of a series of Walter Mosley novels, Devil in a Blue Dress feels like a missed opportunity. Washington’s standout performance as Rawlins is full of charisma, and Don Cheadle’s breakout performance as Mouse is delightfully sociopathic. A series of neo-noir films starring the pair would be an exciting vehicle for examining the ever-evo...
Analyzing the parallel aesthetic strategies in the literary and filmic versions of Devil in a Blue Dress, this chapter shows how Mosley and Franklin illuminate Rawlins’s subjectivity and the social realities “invisible” to white Americans due to socioeconomic segregation, unequal treatment in society, and racial indifference. 5 To ...
Similarly, the sort of upset achieved by Devil in a Blue Dress through the scene under discussion is about “miscegenation,” which the Hays Code creators found to be disgusting because it violated notions of the alleged need for racial “purity” long held by whites, which is itself (in part, at least) a socio-moral dimension of a learned ...
