Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem
Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem

Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem

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2019
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In this interview, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2019, film scholar Mia Mask discusses blackface and the 'Bojangles of Harlem' number in George Stevens's 'Swing Time' (1936).

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