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by the 40s, most radio drama was not any of those things, at least not to an offensive degree. I've only seen a few very old movies and caricatures are annoying
by genewitch 4y ago
by the 40s, most radio drama was not any of those things, at least not to an offensive degree. I've only seen a few very old movies and caricatures are annoying, but it's a product of the time. There's no reason to wipe it off the planet.
- anthk 4y agoI'm hearing the "Old Radio" archives, and Dimension X it's highly recommended for what it was for its era. Remember: the sci-fi folks mostly were the progressive ones, just look at Star Trek from the 60's. Or The Twilight Zone from the 50's.
- stametseater 4y agoWhen discussing the era of scientific racism, it's a mistake to assume that interest in science correlated with socially progressive beliefs, in the modern sense of progress.
- anthk 4y agoIt depends on the artwork. Most pulp and scifi comics were progressive and "scientific racism" had no sense from a huge intergalactic biology review. Wars? yes, OFC. Stereotypes? Back and forth. Cultures were far more isolated back in the day and the typical " 'murican Southern/Chicagoan journalist/NYC cop" on a Franco-Belgian comic-book was given as a fact.
- genewitch 4y agoMy favorites are: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Phillip Marlowe Richard Diamond these are all noir (hardboiled) detectives, although Johnny and Richard are much more lighthearted... uh, at heart.