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The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation

Sharon Willis

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816692842

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692842.001.0001

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Conclusion

Conclusion

Chasing Sidney

Chapter:
(p.201) Conclusion
Source:
The Poitier Effect
Author(s):

Sharon Willis

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816692842.003.0006

The conclusion explores the persistence of Poitier’s iconic usefulness through his recent reappearances in the twenty-first century as he emerges, for example, in popular discourse around Barak Obama’s candidacy, or at the historic 2002 Academy Awards ceremony where Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Best Actress and Actor.

Keywords:   Civil rights movement, Race relations, Popular Cinema, Television, Melodrama, Feminism, Sidney Poitier, Collective Memory

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