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The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Glenn Ford portrays an embattled teacher at an inner-city high school in the 1955 movie classic The Blackboard Jungle. Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow appear in support.
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Black Portraiture in Hollywood: Part 2
In this part I complete my analysis of how audiences are ‘taught’ languages through film, using Semiotics and Communication Theory…How, in the 1960s, Sidney Poitier unwittingly aided in undermining the Civil Rights movement with his films & I will introduce you to Melvin Van Peebles, the original Black guerrilla filmmaker, who started the ‘Blaxploitation’ era in the 1970s even though it was not his intention.
