<i>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?</i>: A Clash of Interpretations Regarding Stanley Kramer's Film on the Subject of Interracial Marriage

Harris, Glen Anthony; Toplin, Robert Brent

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00431.x

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“…Her analysis identified a range of themes that characterized these relationships, but did not compare their representation to mono-ethnic couples in the same films. Others, such as Harris and Toplin (2007), have described interethnic intimacy as portrayed in one film (Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?) or a small number of films (e.g.…”

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‘Reel love’ across ethnic boundaries? The extent and significance of inter-ethnic intimacy in Australian cinema

Klocker¹,

Stanes²

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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National cinemas play an important role in the construction of national identities, representing the 'self' to both domestic and international audiences. Evidence of the material impacts of media representations on individuals and society, and the pervasiveness of movie-watching as a cultural activity, underscore the importance of scholarly inquiry into film. Here, we are concerned with how ethnic diversity has been negotiated within the Australian national cinema Á specifically at the scale of intimate interpersonal relationships. Our analysis of twenty-five recent Australian films considers how cinema alerts audiences to the possibilities and limitations of love within and across ethnic boundaries. We find cause for modest optimism in regard to the frequency of Australian cinematic representations of inter-ethnic intimacy, although the narrow range of ethnic groups permitted to participate in these encounters, and an apparent reticence to portray marriage, co-habitation and child-bearing across ethnic boundaries, remain cause for concern.

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Section: Cinematic Engagements With Inter-ethnic Intimacymentioning

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‘Reel love’ across ethnic boundaries? The extent and significance of inter-ethnic intimacy in Australian cinema

Klocker¹,

Stanes²

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Due to the contentiousness of this issue in American society, Robert Brent Toplin, co-author of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? A Clash of Interpretations Regarding Stanley Kramer's Film on the Subject of Interracial Marriage [1] argues that the film's discussion of interracial marriage was revolutionary for the period and only briefly mentions how some aspects of the film could be construed as a reflection of American society at large. However, closer investigation of the film demonstrates the contrary; while some aspects of Kramer's dramatization were progressive and influential for the era, the film more accurately serves as a reflection of the larger social and political context of 1960s America in regards to both attitudes of opposition and acceptance of interracial marriage.…”

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Film as a reflection of society: interracial marriage and Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in late 1960s America

Anderson

2010

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This paper explores the debate of whether Hollywood films act as influential and progressive forces in a society, or do they serve as a larger reflection of that society. I examine Stanley Kramer’s film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), about an interracial marriage between a black man and a white woman. Was the film progressive for its time, or was it reflective of the social attitudes in late 1960s America? I argue that although there are aspects of the film that can be construed as progressive and influential for the era, the film more accurately serves as a reflection of the larger socio-political context of 1960s America in regards to both attitudes of opposition and acceptance of interracial marriage. Furthermore, a brief comparison is also made between the film and contemporary issues surrounding race relations in 21st Century America.

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Beyond Diagnosis: Representing the Hotline in The Slender Thread

Zeavin

2023

American Literary History

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Revisiting the little-noted 1965 film, The Slender Thread, this article argues that its representation of the suicide hotline constellates midcentury anxieties concerning psychiatric care, race, and gender. The Slender Thread provides a story of the suicide hotline at an “early crossroads” in the history of the suicide hotline as it “turned . . . toward cure and the carceral while gloving that power within the protocol of this radical care.” This is the Poitier Effect: Black fury is and must be sublated into Black care to bypass revolutionary action and insurrection.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: A Clash of Interpretations Regarding Stanley Kramer's Film on the Subject of Interracial Marriage

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‘Reel love’ across ethnic boundaries? The extent and significance of inter-ethnic intimacy in Australian cinema

‘Reel love’ across ethnic boundaries? The extent and significance of inter-ethnic intimacy in Australian cinema

Film as a reflection of society: interracial marriage and Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in late 1960s America

Beyond Diagnosis: Representing the Hotline in The Slender Thread

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