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Spotlight on WATERMELON MAN with Racquel J. Gates
Criterion Originals
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6m 16s
In the following introduction recorded in 2021, film scholar Racquel J. Gates explores Melvin Van Peebles’s sole foray into Hollywood filmmaking, an audacious satire that dissects America’s racist double standards with acerbic irreverence and radical insight.
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