What Curly Hair Represents In Movies & TV (& How It's Changing) | Trope Explained скачать в хорошем качестве

What Curly Hair Represents In Movies & TV (& How It's Changing) | Trope Explained

Curly hair, like hair colors, is often used to represent something specific about a character on screen. Sometimes curly hair is a positive signifier – like of an untamable strength within a character – but for a long time curly hair was used as an indication that something about a character needed to be changed and, well, straightened out. In recent years, things have begun evolving as we’ve seen more and more characters come to love their hair (and themselves) as is, following on the back of real world movements to do the same. So let’s unpack the different tropes that have sprung up around curly hair on screen (good and bad) and how we’re finally bouncing past those into a much more positive, accepting place. Join our Patreon to unlock the members-only series “Total Take," vote on what we cover next, and more:   / thetake   Read articles on film, TV and culture: https://www.the-take.com Follow our socials: https://linktr.ee/thisisthetake CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:48 The curly haired woman who must be tamed 02:20 A sign of evil 02:36 Powerful & not afraid to take up space 03:16 Quirky curls (& why they aren't forced to to straighten their hair) 04:48 Why society always wanted curly girls to change 05:59 They tried to make Julia Louis-Dreyfus blow out her hair forever 06:43 Film & tv's issues with black hair textures (are improving but not fixed) 08:59 Love your curly hair! The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough This video was written/narrated/produced/edited by Jessica Babineaux Films & shows mentioned/shown in this video: The Bold Type Sex and the City Black-ish Clueless The Princess Diaries Foxy Brown Broad City Girlfriends The Hair Tales Seinfeld Moonstruck Insecure My Big Fat Greek Wedding A Wrinkle In Time A Star Is Born (1976) Almost Famous Eyes Wide Shut Fatal Attraction Sesame Street The Righteous Gemstones Harry Potter Tangled The Today Show Harper's Bazaar - How I Do (Tracee Ellis Ross)