The Horse
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Date: January 01, 1973 to December 31, 1973
Dates Note: 1973
Country of Origin:
United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive
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Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The SearchersDescription:
Charles Burnett’s The Horse delicately captures the complex bond between a young Black boy and an ailing horse in the rural American South. The boy’s presence along the muted stretches of yellow fields is a soft contrast to the unsympathetic and vitriolic white farm owners. The Horse is Burnett’s subtle sociopolitical reminder of the inevitability of death and its threat of imminence in Black life.
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