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Illusions is a 1982 film written and directed by Julie Dash. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era.
22 giu 2017 · Preview Clip: Illusions (1982, starring Lonette McKee and Rosanne Katon) https://www.daaracarchive.org/2017/06... The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a...
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4 apr 2019 · This highly-acclaimed drama by one of the leading African American women directors follows Mignon’s dilemma, Ester’s struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: three illusions in conflict with reality.”
Julie Dash's 1983 short-film investigates the illusory mythmaking of the Hollywood factory, as we follow a light-skinned black-female-executive and a dark-skinned black singer hired by the exec to dub a white star's voice.
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Set in Hollywood during WWII, Illusions tells the story of Mignon Duprée, a studio executive passing for white, and Ester Jeeter, an African American singer hired to dub the voice of a white movie star.
2 feb 2009 · So states the protagonist of Julie Dash’s 1982 film, Illusions. The film is a critique of Hollywood history and an attempt to subvert that very history by calling attention to the lack of an African-American presence in Hollywood during the era of World War II and even today, for that matter.
Mignon Duprée, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo.
