White Savior Film
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
Motion pictures, social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Film criticism
Motion pictures
Social aspects
The cinematic trope of the white savior film; think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about themselves and their culture in the process of …
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