Films

Imitation of Life : The Lord has His Reasons

Annie (Juanita Moore) visits Sarah Jane (Karin Dicker) at school, where she discovers she has been passing as white.

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Film Language

close-up, depth of field, dissolve, dolly shot, establishing shot, fade-in, fade-out, following shot, low-key lighting, medium close-up, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, Black: Blackface, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White passing

"The Lord has His Reasons" in Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 1959, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2629

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