To a great extent, popular culture is a series of remakes. Remakes of classical theatre. Remakes of children’s stories. Remakes of old movies.
There’s nothing basically wrong with that. Hamlet has been restaged thousands of times, sometimes preserving its original historical context, other times being modernized. Film director Akira Kurosawa transported “Macbeth” and “King Lear” into Japanese historical reimagining with stunning effect in “Throne of Blood” and “Ran.” Director John Sturges reciprocated when he repurposed Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” as a rollicking American western, “The Magnificent Seven.”
But each remake occurs at a specific moment. Times change and, with those changes, we get altered views of both the originals and the remakes. Changing views of diversity have deeply influenced that process.
Continue reading Renewing Diversity No. 8: Updating the Classics – by Carlos Cortés
LaTrice Currie is a native Tennessean who graduated from Hampton U. LaTrice joined Chattanooga’s Channel 3 Eyewitness News in 1995. She now co-anchors news at noon and 5:30 and also serves as Eye On Health Reporter and host of Trends on 3.
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