{"id":14766,"date":"2020-06-23T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:30:00","slug":"revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Revisiting the Police Presence in \u2018West Side Story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f7a9223014\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f7a9223014\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2\/#Almost_sixty_years_later_%E2%80%98West_Side_Story_is_as_vital_and_relevant_as_the_day_it_was_released\" >Almost sixty years later, &#8216;West Side Story&#8217; is as vital and relevant as the day it was released.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-police-presence-in-west-side-story-2\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Revisiting the Police Presence in \u2018West Side Story\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\">\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                          <span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span>                                       <meta content=\"1\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\">Columns<\/span>                                                        <meta content=\"2\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a><\/span>                                                         <meta content=\"3\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">             <span itemprop=\"author\">Meg Shields<\/span>                  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>June 23, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Almost_sixty_years_later_%E2%80%98West_Side_Story_is_as_vital_and_relevant_as_the_day_it_was_released\"><\/span>Almost sixty years later, &#8216;West Side Story&#8217; is as vital and relevant as the day it was released.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>When it comes to older films that are tricky, sticky, or straight-up problematic, the same question usually <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lies: what can you take, and what can you leave? Being mindful of the content you watch doesn\u2019t make you a wet blanket; it makes you a thoughtful viewer. And being a thoughtful viewer is critical when it comes to revisiting old films.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>West Side Story<\/em><\/strong>, which won 10 (10!) Academy Awards in 1962, is a musical adaptation of <em>Romeo and Juliet <\/em>set in the slums of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where two gangs of rival teens compete to \u201cown\u201d the neighborhood. The film features some pretty egregious brownface, but its themes of racism, corruption, and injustice remain eerily spot on almost sixty years later because, in case you hadn\u2019t heard, systemic racism is still very much alive today.<\/p>\n<p>In her second video unpacking <em>West Side Story<\/em>, <strong>LadyJenevia<\/strong> breaks down how\u00a0<em>West Side Story\u00a0<\/em>depicts a racist and corrupt police presence and unpacks the queer-coded complexity of Anybodys (who, in a very dope casting move, is to be played by trans non-binary actor Ezra Menas in Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming remake).<\/p>\n<p>You can watch \u201cWest Side Story Revisited: Police, Privilege, and Pride \u201d here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEieSfdIO_0?feature=oembed\" title=\"West Side Story Revisited: Police, Privilege, and Pride (Video essay)\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>LadyJenevia is a Japan-based reporter and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>r with a Master\u2019s Degree in Cross-Cultural Psychology. She reviews recent cinematic releases, creates video essays on older releases, and covers events, conventions, and interviews. You can follow LadyJenevia on YouTube here. And you can follow her on Twitter here.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s LadyJenevia on how to fix the disasterpiece\u00a0<em>Cats<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cher did a version of\u00a0<em>West Side Story\u00a0<\/em>where she played all the roles because of course, she did<\/li>\n<li>A case for why leitmotifs prove <em>West Side Story\u00a0<\/em>is a musical masterpiece<\/li>\n<li>Inside the Score has a video on the ways in which the racial tension in\u00a0<em>West Side Story\u00a0<\/em>manifests in the film\u2019s score<\/li>\n<li>The 2016 TV movie <em>West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leonard Bernstein\u2019s life-long friend and collaborator Sid Ramin on orchestrating <em>West Side Story<\/em> both for the Broadway show and the film\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>And here\u2019s Leonard Bernstein conducting George Gershwin\u2019s \u201cRhapsody in Blue\u201d with the New York Philharmonic in 1976<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s Stephen Sondheim on editing swear words out of the lyrics of <em>West Side Story<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lindsay Ellis on the death of the Hollywood Movie Musical<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of the success of <em>West Side Story<\/em> by Howard Goodall, extracted from the TV show \u201cTwentieth Century Greats\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Kallgren covered\u00a0<em>West Side Story\u00a0<\/em>during his Summer of Shakespeare back in 2015 and teases out how The Bard fares as a New Yorker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/west-side-story-police-presence\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=west-side-story-police-presence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Revisiting the Police Presence in \u2018West Side Story\u2019&#8221; Home Columns Movies Meg Shields June 23, 2020 Almost sixty years later, &#8216;West Side Story&#8217; is as vital and relevant as the day it was released. 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