Studies in the Humanities, June 1st, 2001
A media event hypertrophied as vying with the Kennedy assassination, the Emmy Award-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines's 1971 novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (John Korty), which aired on CBS in January 1974, provoked considerable essentializing, both pro and con. John Callahan, for instance, tries to explain the "tears of gratitude" "we" experience upon viewing the end of the film (61), while Vilma Raskin Potter complains that the "hit-and-run power" of this adaptation of a "black novel" into a "white film" "ought to anger all of us" (375). It is ironic, of course, that Gain...
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