Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem

Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem

2019 · 9 min

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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