Oddball Films presents
Bad Boys: White Men Can Jump
- When
- Thu Jan 5, 2012
- Where
- Oddball Film + Video
- Time
- 8:00pm
- Cost
- $10
- Tags
- Movies
Description
Oddball Films and guest curator Christine Kwon present Bad Boys: White Men Can Jump. Who needs colonialism when the coming-of-age of the white man is so much more hilarious? Boxing babies, women-shaking ranchers, and paratrooping snipers were just some of the media-loving models of both good and bad white boys. Spanning the ‘40s to the ‘80s, this program boasts guilty pleasures including a trailer of Chinatown Squad (1935), featuring matinee idol Lyle Talbot, an excerpt from the awe-inducing Bing Crosby Show (‘60s) with special guests the “Young Americans” (think Children of the Corn in choir format), and a medley of confounding psyche shorts teaching young men how to deal with everything from passive-aggressive parents, in Separation/Divorce: It Has Nothing To Do With You (1974), to raging hormones, in A Night Out (1981). Top that off with some droll anti-communist propaganda in A Motion Picture History of the Korean War (1950) and the ever-popular men-at-sea genre in The Voyage of the Mayflower II (1957) to witness a bizarre evolution of the white boy.More Info
- Link
- http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com
- Call
- 415.558.8117 (Box Office)
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