Funny Valentine: Paris, Blackface, and Paramount’s Funny Face

September 15, 2015

Michelle Robinson, Assistant Professor of American Studies

Michelle Robinson will consider the significance of Paris for Hollywood films created in the Civil Rights era. This presentation discusses Paramount’s 1957 musical comedy Funny Face in relation to the work of fashion photographer Richard Avedon, the Arthur Freed-produced adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans (1960)–which replaced Kerouac’s black and Cherokee female character with French actress Leslie Caron, and the Duke Ellington-scored Sidney Poitier-vehicle Paris Blues (1961). What does it mean to set a film in Paris?

TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

All Spotlight on Scholars events take place at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. There are no preparatory readings for these events.

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