#OLD MOVIE S SERIES#

And one could certainly say that about 'Psycho,' and many people have. And when they show up, they're problematic. STEWART: For me, it was a way of understanding how some of the same anxieties and frustrations that we feel when we look at the body of classic Hollywood films and see so few representations of people of color. Oh.Д¬ORNISH: So you're reframing it in what way? Where did the conversation go? JANET LEIGH: (As Marion Crane, screaming) Oh, no. And this is the Hitchcock film about a killer basically who dresses in women's clothing, I think specifically his mother's clothing. I really had to educate myself about the ways that Psycho has been such a harmful film to the trans community.Д¬ORNISH: Right. I can certainly say that when we were talking about 'Psycho,' that's a film that I was surprised to see on the programming list. STEWART: They were, I think, sometimes tricky conversations. So what was so powerful for me about 'Reframed' was not just that we were having conversations about them, but it was the form of the conversation itself.

And so 'Gone With The Wind,' I think, was a really important film for us to feature at the start of our 'Reframed' series.

It was just a repetition of what some viewers have always seen. I think it's important that you say, quote, unquote, 'reframe' it because I think there are many audiences for whom pointing out the racism of 'Gone With The Wind' was not a reframing. Can you talk about how you wanted to, quote, unquote, 'reframe' it? Like, what is an idea that you presented to the audience in that episode? The difference here was calling attention to it and to make the movies part of a national conversation about race, about ethnicity, about sexual orientation and about gender.Д¬ORNISH: Jacqueline, 'Gone With The Wind' is a great example for us to talk about because this was a film that grossed, you know, accounting for inflation, I guess, like, more than a billion dollars, won eight Oscars. This was a golden era, and sadly, it's gone. Stewart and fellow co-host Ben Mankiewicz started with 'Gone With The Wind.'Д«EN MANKIEWICZ: I mean, the first 30 seconds could tell every child in America who you were trying to teach about the history of racism how Hollywood and, therefore, in many ways, how America viewed Black people in 1939 - right? - that we were so - we were celebrating the South. STEWART: We're asking them to reframe films that they had not thought about in those ways.Д¬ORNISH: 'TCM Reframed' focuses on classic films from the '20s through the '60s, films that have stood the test of time but are now problematic.

#OLD MOVIE S SERIES#

It's also a film that features a scene where a woman is thrown into a garbage dumpster.Д¬ORNISH: Incredible artistry, undercurrents of misogyny - unpacking those mixed feelings is what Jacqueline Stewart does as one of the hosts for the Turner Classic Movies channel in a new series called 'TCM Reframed.' JACQUELINE STEWART: It's a musical that I adore. University of Chicago film professor Jacqueline Stewart had that feeling with 'Purple Rain,' starring the one and only Prince. Sometimes when you go back to watch an older movie you love, it feels a little bit off - like, ooh, this hasn't aged well.

Old movie s