Films

Imitation of Life : Being Colored

Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) resists Lora's (Lana Turner) request that she help serve her guests with a caricature of a colored servant.

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Film Language

close-up, deep focus, framing, high angle, lighting, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, mobile framing, music, empathetic, set

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"Being Colored" in Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 1959, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2633

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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