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Soul Man : Blackface

Mark (C. Thomas Howell) tries to find a way to pay for his Harvard Law School tuition after his father (Leslie Nielsen) buys a house in Barbados

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beat, action, beat, event, blackface, close-up, dolly shot, framing, high angle, long take, low angle, makeup, medium close-up, medium shot, monologue, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, rack focus, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, sound bridge, sound effects, two-shot, zoom-out

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Black: Blackface, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Blackface" in Soul Man. Directed by Steve Miner, The Steve Tisch Company, 1986, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2824

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