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Bessie : Cross-dressing

Bessie (Queen Latifah) travels the country with her mentor, Ma Rainey (Mo'Nique). After Bessie's first performance, Ma Rainey performs, cross-dressed as a man

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beat, action, beat, emotion, costume, dialogue, diegetic sound, full shot, hue, interior, long shot, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, pan, performance, rack focus, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, sound effects

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cross-dressing

"Cross-dressing" in Bessie. Directed by Dee Rees, The Zanuck Company, 2015, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2944

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Alexana Dubois

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