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 **Why was this made into a love story? Is this entangled with the gendered and racialized messages (described above)? --Julia Peterson** **Why was this made into a love story? Is this entangled with the gendered and racialized messages (described above)? --Julia Peterson**
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 +This movie did a great a job at painting a very white version of the west . It only mentioned one minority group that followed the stereotype of drunk Indians in saloons. It made no mention of the diverse populations that were migrating out west. Where are the non-white people at? --William Roszell
 ====== 4 Movie as a Primary Source about the time in which it was made ====== ====== 4 Movie as a Primary Source about the time in which it was made ======
 This film was made in a time when western genre films were becoming increasingly popular. In 1946 the west was still seen as an open land full of promise, but equally as harsh. Films like //My Darling Clementine// played off this idea, showing how the west could wrangled by one tough cowboy, while throwing in the usual western tropes such as a romantic angle, a gang rivalry, and the classic shootout. --- //[[nfanning@umw.edu|Fanning Neal R.]] 2016/10/26 09:39// This film was made in a time when western genre films were becoming increasingly popular. In 1946 the west was still seen as an open land full of promise, but equally as harsh. Films like //My Darling Clementine// played off this idea, showing how the west could wrangled by one tough cowboy, while throwing in the usual western tropes such as a romantic angle, a gang rivalry, and the classic shootout. --- //[[nfanning@umw.edu|Fanning Neal R.]] 2016/10/26 09:39//
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  “My Darling Clementine” has no shortage of elements that characterize the 1940’s, a time when story telling was more imperative in cinema than fact telling historic events. As far as the story, this film (to me) is the embodiment of the (now Classic) Western genre which was hugely popular at that time. **The film’s cast is comprised of actors who display the typical Hollywood, glamorous features/demeanors, for roles that probably don’t realistically line-up.** These architypes include the suave debonair males who epitomize masculinity, or the “wide-eyed dames” who encompass feminization (for that time). In regards to the latter, **this era in film also limits its female roles to one of two types, the “well reserved (behaved) woman of modesty” who ends up surviving the film’s turmoil, or the “less modest woman of loose morals” who is essentially ruined as a result of her insubordination.** Both of these characters are used in the film though one, Linda Darnell’s Chihuahua, was intended to be of a different ethnicity which is another common trait of that era in film. --- //[[dblount@umw.edu|Blount, David]] 2016/10/27 0330//  “My Darling Clementine” has no shortage of elements that characterize the 1940’s, a time when story telling was more imperative in cinema than fact telling historic events. As far as the story, this film (to me) is the embodiment of the (now Classic) Western genre which was hugely popular at that time. **The film’s cast is comprised of actors who display the typical Hollywood, glamorous features/demeanors, for roles that probably don’t realistically line-up.** These architypes include the suave debonair males who epitomize masculinity, or the “wide-eyed dames” who encompass feminization (for that time). In regards to the latter, **this era in film also limits its female roles to one of two types, the “well reserved (behaved) woman of modesty” who ends up surviving the film’s turmoil, or the “less modest woman of loose morals” who is essentially ruined as a result of her insubordination.** Both of these characters are used in the film though one, Linda Darnell’s Chihuahua, was intended to be of a different ethnicity which is another common trait of that era in film. --- //[[dblount@umw.edu|Blount, David]] 2016/10/27 0330//
  
 +My  Darling Clementine is a classic western that attempts to depict the definition of what a manliness in 1940’s .--William Roszell
 ====== 5 Comparing the reading to the movie ====== ====== 5 Comparing the reading to the movie ======
 **The movie reflects the way people romanticize the idea of outlaws and cowboys shown in the description of the Popular Account of the Death of Jesse James. In both, people who were never there and do not know what really happened tell a story of what they think to have happened even if it is not the full truth or in such detail. In the case of the primary source, they used flowery language and what they think may have went down to make the story sound better. In the movie they use a fictional retelling of an event to make it sound better**. --- //[[mlindse2@umw.edu|Lindsey, Megan E.]] 2016/10/26 16:56// **The movie reflects the way people romanticize the idea of outlaws and cowboys shown in the description of the Popular Account of the Death of Jesse James. In both, people who were never there and do not know what really happened tell a story of what they think to have happened even if it is not the full truth or in such detail. In the case of the primary source, they used flowery language and what they think may have went down to make the story sound better. In the movie they use a fictional retelling of an event to make it sound better**. --- //[[mlindse2@umw.edu|Lindsey, Megan E.]] 2016/10/26 16:56//
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