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There are pieces -plays, paintings, material from other media- that powerfully incorporate and employ images from film and television without being movies or television shows. Often they 'speak to' women in or characterized by the industry. As they appear or are brought to our attention by readers, they will be included in this section.

Our first is Adrienne Kennedy's A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. Adrienne is truly one of our greatest playwrights (?our? as in Women, Theater, Philosophy, Writing). Here came this play in 1964 with heart-stopping filmic imagery with so much to say about emerging consciousness, the archetypal power of film, sometimes about being black, mostly about being a woman, aspirations, surroundings, ?.a play demanding attention then, and now.
A MOVIE STAR HAS TO STAR IN BLACK AND WHITE By: Adrienne Kennedy
The lead character, Clara, tells her own story - the story of a young African- American woman writer in the late 1950's - by using scenes and imagery from powerful popular movies of the time (Now Voyager, Viva Zapata, A Place in the Sun). Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Jean Peters speak as her. Paul Heinreid and Montgomery Cliff and Marlon Brando respond to her. Through them and parallel emotions, she tells her loved ones about her desperate confusion over having ambitions unexpected of a mother, a woman, a black woman, a writer. The play speaks in images that both shape and reveal all the cores of all of this young woman's lives...
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A MOVIE STAR HAS TO STAR IN BLACK AND WHITE (Scene II) By: Adrienne KennedyScene II.
Clara, a young African American woman writer in the late 1950's, whose story unfolds through scenes from popular movies, faces the horrors and the cosmic visions of disparate constructions. The play speaks images that shape and reveal the cores of the young woman's lives....More >
A MOVIE STAR HAS TO STAR IN BLACK AND WHITE (Scene III) By: Adrienne KennedyScene III (Final Scene).
Clara, a young African American woman writer in the late 1950's, whose story unfolds through scenes from popular movies, faces the horrors and the cosmic visions of disparate constructions. The play speaks images that shape and reveal the cores of the young woman's lives....More >
 
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