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Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond, Author

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Conclusion, Page 283

Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), and Ben Stiller as Tug Speedman/Simple Jack in Tropic Thunder (2008).

Invoked mainly for comedy, blackface minstrelsy resides in the space between character and actor, performing the authenticity of blackness in relation to whiteness, a subject knowing of itself.
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