Replaying a Useful South: Black Women, Midcentury Domesticity, and the Films of the Georgia Department of Public Health.
This article analyzes and considers the contemporary significance of Palmour Street: A Study of Family Life (1950) and All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1952), two nontheatrical films produced for the Georgia Department of Health (GDPH) in the early 1950s and now available online. Made by progre...
| Publicado en: | Southern Cultures Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 88 - 106 |
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