Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem

June. 11,2019      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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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