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Cool Summer Gallery Talk with Professor Brian Locke 6PM Registration and Refreshments 6:30PM Discussion and Q&A $5 ($10 for non-members) About the Speaker Brian Locke is the author of Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Present: The Orientalist Buddy Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.) Professor Locke holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and taught comparative race studies and cultural studies for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Utah, and Yale University.The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
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The Korean War era represented a watershed moment for race relations in the United States, with blacks and whites fighting alongside each other in integrated units, a result of President Truman’s 1948 desegregation of the American armed forces. Whatever the reality, Hollywood had its version of this historical shift, portraying white soldiers and black soldiers as brothers in arms. Some films, however, achieved this onscreen camaraderie between white and black by vilifying the Korean enemy. Professor Brian Locke will examine the portrayal of white and black reconciliation and the associated idea of the Asian as archetypal "foreigner" in films of the period, particularly the 1960 film All the Young Men, directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier. Held in conjunction with our current gallery exhibition, Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics, the lecture aims to further illuminate the shifting social attitudes of the Korean War era as portrayed in popular films of the time.
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