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Article: Works of Alice Walker: Critics Respond To The Film Version Of The Color Purple
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Walker, Alice
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critics Respond To The Film Version Of The Color Purple
The critical response to the film The Color Purple should be seen in the
context of the history of Hollywood films that have been produced about
Afro-Americans. It is important to remember that while twenty or so Hollywood
films have been adapted from Afro-American men's works, Walker's The Color
Purple is one of the first novels to be adapted from an Afro-American woman's
novel.
Hollywood has tended to portray black men and women through white
stereotypes such as the Mammy and the Sambo. For a discussion of these
cinematic stereotypes, students of this subject might want to read studies
such as ...
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