Color Adjustment (1992)

Directed by

Marlon Riggs

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary traces 40 years of how prime-time television portrayed African Americans. It examines the racial stereotypes and myths that TV entertainment created and reinforced. The film is narrated by Ruby Dee and is a sequel to Ethnic Notions.

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What happens

Color Adjustment is a 1992 documentary film that traces 40 years of race relations and the representation of African Americans through the lens of prime-time television entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths. Narrated by Ruby Dee, it is a sequel to Riggs’s Ethnic Notions, this time examining racial stereotypes in the broadcast age. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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