@deanduncan63Saw Wm. Wyler/WB’s #Jezebel. The sheer scope of the resources arrayed here, & the skill & affection w’ which they are put into effect, is awesome.
#Jezebel. You can’t get around its problematic ideologies: race, obviously, & gender, more troublingly/insidiously …
… Further, though: you shouldn’t get around the fact that errors or insensitivities in our past expressions …
… can hardly ever completely invalidate said expressions, or the individuals & communities that produced them.
#Jezebel. A shrew-taming, which makes sense & satisfies, in context. Underneath is a much more dire spirit-extinction. Also, Bette Davis!!
#Jezebel. OTOH, on the subject of the dear destructiveness of Southern chivalry (cf. Twain on Walter Scott), this is very knowing & sophisticated.