Exploring racial politics, personal history and critical reception: Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949)

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dc.contributor.authorYoung, Gwenda
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.available2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractUsing archival sources from the Clarence Brown Archive at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, newspaper clippings from a wide range of national and regional press, and unpublished interviews, this article explores how the complexities and contradictions that are central to Clarence Brown’s film version of Intruder in the Dust (1949)—complexities that, arguably, make this film the most ambiguous of all the “race issue” films released in 1949—are mirrored in the director’s own deeply divided attitude to race and to the South. These tensions also surface in the critical reception of the film in the white press, and perhaps more tellingly, in the black press of 1949. The notion that this was a film generally acclaimed in the black press can be challenged, or at the very least nuanced, through a closer examination of newspaper archives, which, in turn, reveals some of the divisions within black intellectual circles of the late 1940s.en
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dc.identifier.citationYoung, G. (2013) 'Exploring racial politics, personal history and critical reception: Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949)', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 6. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.04en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.04
dc.identifier.endpage68
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued6
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage51
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5802
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dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ArticleYoung.html
dc.rights© 2013, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectClarence Brownen
dc.subjectRaceen
dc.subjectTensionen
dc.subjectAmbiguousen
dc.titleExploring racial politics, personal history and critical reception: Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949)en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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