Episode 34: Sneetch, Please! When art and cancel culture collide.
In this episode we look at a few different ways that entertainment powers that be have been engaging with problematic films, books, and fine art. They aren't really being cancelled but our eyes are not closed to the issues anymore, sneetches!!
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Our sources are below:
On Dr. Seusse: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/exclusive-dr-seuss-stepdaughter-speaks-out-about-books-removed-from-print#:~:text=Seuss%20Enterprises%20announced%20that%20six,Beyond%20Zebra!%E2%80%9D%20The%20objectionable%20content
About Reframed on TCM: https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming-Article/020930/reframed-classic-films-in-the-rearview-mirror/
About Picasso: https://ruthmillington.co.uk/can-we-separate-art-from-artist/
About Picasso: https://www.good.is/features/museums-address-artists-after-metoo
About the history of Minstrel shows: Grosvenor, Edwin and Toll, Robert. Blackface: the Sad History of Minstrel Shows. American Heritage Winter Volume 64, Issue 1, 2019.
About TCM Reframed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-8-sT4BV4&t=10s
About Gone With the Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DF2FKRToiQ
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